__O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet,
and to the right and left of you; you will be an eternal enigma
unto yourselves until ye become humble and joyful as children.
Then will ye find Me, and having found Me in yourselves, you will
rule over worlds, and looking out from the great world within to
the little world without, you will bless everything that is, and
find all is well with time and with you.__ KRISHNA.


To make my thoughts clear to you I must go farther back. We do
not, cannot, and I venture to say need not, know how men lived
millions of years ago or even ten thousand years ago, but we do
know positively that, as far back as we have any knowledge of
mankind, it has always lived in special groups of families,
tribes, and nations in which the majority, in the conviction that
it must be so, submissively and willingly bowed to the rule of
one or more persons--that is to a very small minority. Despite
all varieties of circumstances and personalities these relations
manifested themselves among the various peoples of whose origin
we have any knowledge; and the farther back we go the more
absolutely necessary did this arrangement appear, both to the
rulers and the ruled, to make it possible for people to live
peacefully together.

So it was everywhere. But though this external form of life
existed for centuries and still exists, very early--thousands of
years before our time--amid this life based on coercion, one and
the same thought constantly emerged among different nations,
namely, that in every individual a spiritual element is