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Kurukshetra

        Universal destroys
            Before we can proceed,  following in the  large steps of the
        Teacher of the Gita, to watch his tracing of the triune path of
        man, — the path which is that of his will, heart, thought raising
        themselves to the Highest and into the being of that which is the
        supreme object of all action, love and knowledge, we must con-
        sider once more the situation from which the Gita arises, but now
        in its largest bearings as a type of human life and even of all world-
        existence. For although Arjuna is himself concerned only with his
        own situation, his inner struggle and the law of action he must
        follow, yet, as we have seen, the particular question he raises, in
        the manner in which he raises it, does really bring up the whole
        question of human life and action, what the world is and why it
        is and how possibly, it being what it is, life here in the world can
        be reconciled with life in the Spirit. And all this deep and difficult
        matter the Teacher insists on resolving as the very foundation of
        his command to an action which must proceed from a new poise
        of being and by the light of a liberating knowledge.
            But what, then, is it that makes the difficulty for the man who
        has to take the world as it is and act in it and yet would live, with-
        in, the spiritual life? What is this aspect of existence which appals
        his awakened mind and brings about what the title of the first
        chapter of the Gita calls significantly the Yoga of the dejection
        of Arjuna, the dejection and discouragement felt by the human
        being when he is forced to face the spectacle of the universe as
        it really is with the veil of the ethical illusion, the illusion of self-
        righteousness torn from his eyes, before a higher reconciliation
        with himself is effected? It is that aspect which is figured out war
        dly in the carnage and massacre of Kurukshetra and spiritually by
        the vision of the Lord of all things as Time arising to devour and
        destroy the creatures whom it has made. This is the vision of the

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