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at once and naturally produced by it upon the mind.
Therefore, be “unattached;" let things work ; let brain centres.work; work incessantly, but let not even a single ripple conquer the mind. Work as if you were a stranger in this land, a sojourner ; work incessantly, but do not bind yourselves to the things of this world ; bondage is terrible. This world is not our habitation, it is only one of the many stages through which we are passing. Remember that great saying of the Sankhya. "The whole of nature is for the soul, not the soul for nature.” The very reason of nature's existence is for the education of the soul; it has no other meaning; it is there because the soul must have knowledge, and through knowledge free itself. If · we remember this always, we shall never be attached to nature; we shall know that nature is a book in which we are to read, and that when we have gained the required knowledge, the book is of no more value to us. Instead of that, however, we are identifying ourselves with nature; we are
