freedom, seek only for love. Love is peace in itself and peace
which gives complete satisfaction. I am the key that opens the
portal to the rarely discovered land where contentment alone is
found.__ KRISHNA.

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is
like what happens to every individual when he passes from
childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses
what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction,
not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he
invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and
stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and
senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long
time.

When an individual passes from one period of life to another a
time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and
excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has
outgrown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that
he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he
must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding
to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And
in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and
development of humanity. I believe that such a time has now
arrived--not in the sense that it has come in the year 1908, but
that the inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an
extreme degree of tension: on the one side there is the
consciousness of the beneficence of the law of love, and on the
other the existing order of life which has for centuries
occasioned an empty, anxious, restless, and troubled mode of