and punishments sought to compel men to accept religious laws
authorized by the rulers and conflicting with the truth. Such a
hindrance and misrepresentation of the truth--which had not yet
achieved complete clarity--occurred everywhere: in Confucianism
and Taoism, in Buddhism and in Christianity, in Mohammedanism and
in your Brahmanism.



III


__My hand has sowed love everywhere, giving unto all that will
receive. Blessings are offered unto all My children, but many
times in their blindness they fail to see them. How few there
are who gather the gifts which lie in profusion at their feet:
how many there are, who, in wilful waywardness, turn their eyes
away from them and complain with a wail that they have not that
which I have given them; many of them defiantly repudiate not
only My gifts, but Me also, Me, the Source of all blessings and
the Author of their being.__ KRISHNA.

__I tarry awhile from the turmoil and strife of the world. I
will beautify and quicken thy life with love and with joy, for
the light of the soul is Love. Where Love is, there is
contentment and peace, and where there is contentment and peace,
there am I, also, in their midst.__ KRISHNA.

__The aim of the sinless One consists in acting without causing
sorrow to others, although he could attain to great power by