Essays on the Gita, First Series (Arya Publishing House, 1922)

Jihis knowledge of which the Gita speaks,^ pot an intellectual activity .of t he mindj it j s a luminous grow th into thejl^hest sta^ 9f--beingjby the outshining of the light of the divine sun Truth, “that Truth, the Sun lying concealed in the darkness” of our ignorance of which the Rigveda speaks, tat s^am suryam tamasi kshiyantam,, The immutable ^^‘ roa hman is there ia-l he spirit*s skies above this troublecT lower nature, of the dualities, untouched either by its virtue or by its sin, accepting neither our sense of sin nor our self- righteousness, untouched by its joy and its sorrow, indifferent to our joy in success and our grief in failure, inaster of all, su preme, all-pervading, prabh u EQUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE yi bhu, c^lmj_^ong, in all things, the 2source or Nature, not the direct doer ot our wofHJ i S^t ^K e' m'tryss of Nature" and her works, not itHposing on us either the illusion of being the doer, for that illusion is the result of the ignorance of this lower Nature. But this freedom, mastery, purity we cannot see ; \we are bewildered by the q^turaj ign orance which h id ^ from us the ete rnal ^If- ^nowledge ^ f the Bra hman secret wiHunlout ^ing. But knowledge comes to its persistent seeker and "removes the natural self-ignorance; it shines out Uke -a lQng:hidden_sun and lights up to our vision that self-being supr^e beyond the dualities of this lower existence, ddityauat prakdgayati tat par am. By a long whote^Bearled™ eh lay directing our whole conscious being to that, by making that our whole aim, by tu rning it into the whole object of our discerning mind and^Wjeeing jt n ot on ly in oi^elves but everywhere , we become one thought and self^mth that, tqd-buddhayo tad- dtmdnah, an^SUflferin^ of the lower man by the waters of knowledge,* jndna-nirdhUta-kalmashdh. The res uTt is, sayr"the GitaTa^Bg rfcct equali ty to all things and all persons ; and then only can we repose our works ^ n^etely in th e Brahma n. Jot the Brah man i sequaK T amam Brahma, and it is