The Problem of Existence - Its Mustery Struggle and Conform in the Light of Aryan Wisdom

PARABLES 248 The Worldly Man and the Sage—The Ascetic and the Jewels— The Doves and the Stranger —The Worldling and the Merchant—The Burning Stable and the Horses—Three Kinds of Fire — The King and the Ascetic — The King's Exposition of the Art of Government --The King's Analysis of the Types of Mind in a State : sober—vain—comic—haughtrude easy-going —The Ascetic's outline of the Mysteries of [...] An individual or a class may be held to be for the time that another is dominant lower than the latter but to the far-seeing mind equally great is the necessity for the existence of each in the social cosmos and it is evident that the higher the position the more responsible are its work and duties and that its abuse or misuse causes irreparable harm to mankind. [...] It is also necessary for both the father and the mother as well as the guardian or nurse on whom a child relies for care and guidance to be well versed and to feel concerned in the ways of training up the future man or woman as ignorance or carlessness on the part of one may mar the effect of all the teaching which the others may give. [...] It is the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending which is and which was and which is to come." The Soul makes life the means to approach the world ; life makes egoism its instrument ; egoism makes the mind its conveyance ; the mind contrives"MATTER AND MIND 65 the senses as its leaders ; and the senses act through the organs of the material frame. [...] Good company also leads to the exercise and development of the talent for meditation to the guarding of the mind from prejudice and cant and to the obliteration of the impressions formed by contact with ideas or teaching of a different tendency."THE WAYS OF BLISS 78 For ephemeral worldly purposes good company may also show the way to worldly prosperity based on honour and the moralities of life