Essays on the Gita, First Series (Arya Publishing House, 1922)
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THE DIVINE BIRTH AND DIVINE WORKS eflEort of emancipation tried to get rid of Christianity as a creed. On the other hand the life of Rama and Krishna belongs to the prehistoric past which has come down only in poetry and legend and may even be regarded as myths ; but it is quite immaterial whether we regard them as myths or historical facts, because* their permanent truth and value lie in their persistence as a spiritual form, presence, influence in the inner consciousness of the race and_ the life of the human _soui. ^^vatarhood is a fact of divine life and consciousneM which may realise itself in an outward action, but must persist, when that action is over and has done its work, in a spiritual influence ^ or may realise itself in a spiritual influence and teaching, but must then have its permanent effect, even when the new religion or discipline is exhausted, in the thought, temperament and outward life of mankind.
(We must then, in order to understand the Gita's description of the work of the Avatar, take the idea of the Pharm a in it s fullest, deepest and largest c onception, as the inner and" ffie o uter lavkr l 3 y_whkh_the divine Wfll^nd Wisdom „wprkjout ffi^ spiritual evolution, of mankind and its circumstances and results in the life of the race. Pharma in the Indian conception is not me rel y th e good, the rignt, morality and justi ce, edWcs ; kjs_jhe_v3iQle„gQye^ all the rel^ions o^man with other bein^ , wtir yatur e, with Go;^ considered from the point of view of a divine principle^ working itself out in forms and laws of action, forms of the inner and the outer life, orderings of relations of every kind in the world. (^Dharma^ is both that whjclLw e hold to and, that which Jiolds together our mner^jjjd outer activities.^ In its primary sense it me ans a fun damental law of our xiature which secretly conduions all our activities and in this sense each being, type, species, individual, group has its own dharma. ^econdly^^th^e is the divine nature which jhas to develop and manifest jn us, and in ffus^sense dharma is the law of the inner workings by which that grows in our being. "Hurdly, there is the law hy_,wiiichL we, govern our outgoing thought and action and our relations with each other so as to Iiyglp best bot^pur own^ growth and that of the human race towards the divine. ideaJiJ
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