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one with all, making their joy and sorrow and all their life his own,
the liberated made already one self with all beings, lives in the
life of humanity, lives for the one Self in humanity, for God in all
beings, acts for lokasangraha, for the maintaining of all in their
Dharma and the Dharma, for the maintenance of their growth in
all its stages and in all its paths towards the Divine. For the Avatar
here, though he is manifest in the name and form of Krishna, lays
no exclusive stress on this one form of his human birth, but on
that which it represents, the Divine, the Purushottama, of whom
all Avatars are the human births, of whom all forms and names of
the Godhead worshipped by men are the figures. The way declared
by Krishna here is indeed announced as the way by which man can
reach the real knowledge and the real liberation, but it is one that is
inclusive of all paths and not exclusive. For the Divine takes up into
his universality all Avatars and all teachings and all dharmas.
CWSA 19: 173-74

Eternal and the old
The eternal and the old are not one and the same thing. The
eternal belongs to all time; what is beyond the past, the present
and the future, what remains as an unbroken continuity through
all changes, what we perceive as the immortal in mortal — that is
eternal. We do not call the dharma and the fundamental thought
of India, just because they are old, the eternal dharma, the eter-
nal truth. This thought is eternal because it is the self-knowledge
obtained by the realisation of the Self; this dharma is eternal be-
cause it is based on the eternal knowledge. The old is only a form
of the eternal which was suitable to the age.
Writings in bengali: 214

The tree of Dharma of Bharat
Our dharma is like a giant tree adorned with innumerable
branches and twigs. Its roots plunge down into the deepest

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