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THE PHILOSOPHY OF DUTY bring the principle into action, seriously, in the world-that is to say, in the world that scems to us the really serious one, the world of international affairs. Gandhi's program of satyāgraha, his national "firm grasping of truth," in strict adherence to the first principle of India's yoga mastery, ahimsă, “non-killing, nonviolence," is a serious, very brave, and potentially vastly powerful modern experiment in the ancient Hindu science of transcending the sphere of lower powers by entering that of higher. Gandhi is confronting Great Britain's untruth (asatya) with India's truth (satya); British compromise with Hindu holy dharma. This is a wizard priest-battle, waged on the colossal, modern scale, and according to principles derived from the textbooks, not of the Royal Military College, but of Brahman.
The Palace of Wisdom
THE SOUL-POWER brought into action by such a technique, and such a thorough system of anonymous identification, as that which characterizes and supports the orthodox Hindu way of life is derived from levels of the decp unconscious that are normally sealed to the self-conscious individual operating in terms of rational values consciously ascertained. The psychological inflation, the feeling of supranormal, suprapersonal significance, that we man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thec to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away" (Matthew 5: 89-42).
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