The Vedanta Kesari November 1938

Besides sufferings often h a chastening effect on the mind of As the iron must be heated and haintd again and again before it becomes steel the ordinary man has to be put in the furnace of tribulation and hammered with the persecutions of the world before he becomes pure and humble and fit to enter the presence of the Lord. [...] At the beginning of the little tretise the author very touchingly says: It has come to my mind in so far as this is possible during the length of time of this exile and pilgrimage to write once more at the end of my Itfe and to try to deal with the most complete detachme to be attained in this life and of the pur tranquil and strong union of the soul thus attached to God alone. [...] The more the mind is preoccupied with the thought and care for lower and human things the more it moves away from higher and heavenly' things; and the greater the fervour with which one witdraws one's faculties from the memory love and thought of lower things so as to turn them towards the higher the greater will be the perfection of prayer and the purer the contemplation. [...] The first one is a declaration of the Jivaman or the individual Soul that he seeks refuge in the feet of the Lord through the meditation of Lakshmi and the second is a fervant prayer for service to the Dual Personality— the Divine Mother eternally assciated with the father of the Universe. [...] They are : overwhelming sense of fear to a(1) an intense love like that of the proach the Lord for forgiveness and cow for the new-born calf—a love redemption and the disinterested that is not only blind to all faults witness-like attitude adopted by the that the Jiva who is the object of Supreme Being towards the working4 that love may have but even relisof the law of Karma in the world