Essays on the Gita, First Series (Arya Publishing House, 1922)
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all Avatars are the human births, of whom all forms and names of the Godhead worshipped by men are the figures. The way declared by Krishna here is indeed announced as the way by which man can reach the real knowledge and the real liberation, but it is one that is inclusive of all paths and not exclusive. For the Divine takes up into his universality all Avatars and all teachings and all dharraas.
(The Gita lays stress upon the struggle of which the world is the theatre, in its two aspects, the inner struggle and the outer battle. In the inner struggle the enemies are within, in the individual, and the slaying of desire, ignorance, egoism is the victory. But there is an outer struggle between the powers of the Dharma and the Adharma in the huinan collectivityj) The former is supported by the divine, the godlike nature in man, and by those who represent it or strive to realise it in human life, the latter by the Titanic or demoniac, the Asuric and Rakshasic nature whose head is a violent egoism, and by those who represent and strive to satisfy it. This is the war of the Gods and Titans, thc’«ymbol of which the old Indian literature is full, the struggle of the Mahabharata of which Krishna is the central figure being often represented in that image ; the Pandavas who fight for the establishment of the kingdom of the Dharma, are the sons of Ae Gods, their powers in human form, their adversaries are incarnations of the Titanic powers, they are Asuras. /This outer struggle too fhe Avatar comes THE DIVINE BIRTH AND DIVINE WORKS to aid, directly or indirectly, to destroy the reign of the Asuras, the evildoers, and in them depress the power they represent and to restore the oppressed ideals of the Dharma. He comes to bring nearer the kingdom of heaven on earth in the collectivity as well as to build the kingdom of heaven .within in the individual human soulf ^he inner fruit of the Avatar's coming is gained by those who learn from it the true nature of the divine birth and the divine works and who, growing full of him in their consciousness and taking refuge in him with their whole bein^) manmayd mdm updgritdh, by the realising force of
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