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TAKE YOUR TIME: A NOTE ON YOGA 161
cherishes it is an optimistic fool. Having reached this conclusion at a comparatively early stage of civilization, the Eastern teachers adjusted their attitude towards life in relation to time. "How long," they asked themselves, "shall we be content to struggle painfully with the burdens our errors have loaded us with? If there is a way of escape, a possibility of liberation from the ever-recurring sorrows and frustrations of mortal life, let us find it." The greatest minds amongst them concentrated on a way of attainment and it was to this they devoted their time. They envisaged a state of existence which comprised the perfection of Man in all his attributes, an expansion of faculties by which knowledge is acquired, and an intensification of the joys associated with exuberant vital force and unbroken happiness. It was to realize this ideal that the various systems of Yoga came into being, which found their ultimate expression in that spiritual science of the Kingdom of Heaven expounded by the Divine Master Jesus Christ.
In a small volume entitled "Janardana", published in 1905, the story is told of the princess Radha, who attaches herself to a famous Guru for instruction. As the two sat in the shelter of a wayside temple to await the passing of the
