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ence mental or physical can trouble. Its perfection is God's stamp
and seal on the siddhi of the samata. It is in our internal being the
image of the smile of Srikrishna playing, bálavat, as the eternal bala-
ka and kumara in the garden of the world.
CWSA 10: 3-6

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Shakti Chatusthaya
This may be called the siddhi of the temperament or nature
in the lower system, in the internal triloka of mind, life & body,
manas, prana, annam. To put it from a higher standpoint, it is the
siddhi of the divine Shakti working in these three principles.

Virya, shakti, chandibhavah, sraddha, iti shaktichatusthayam.

Virya
The Chaturvarnya
By Virya is meant the fundamental swabhavashakti or the
energy of the divine temperament expressing itself in the four-
fold type of the cháturvarnya, — in Brahmanyam, brahmashakti,
brahmatejas, in kshatram, kshatrashakti, kshatratejas, in Vaishy-
aswabhava, shakti and tejas, in Shudraswabhava, shakti and te-
jas. We must realise that the ancient Aryan Rishis meant by the
cháturvarnya not a mere social division, but a recognition of God
manifesting Himself in fundamental swabhava, which our bodily
distinctions, our social orders are merely an attempt to organise
in the symbols of human life, often a confused attempt, often a
mere parody and distortion of the divine thing they try to express.
Every man has in himself all the four dharmas, but one predomi-
nates, in one he is born and that strikes the note of his character
and determines the type and cast of all his actions; the rest is
subordinated to the dominant type and helps to give it its comple-

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