Let a man meditate upon this, let
him strive to understand it, and he will then begin to sow only seeds of
good, and will burn up the tares and weeds which he has formerly grown in
the garden of his heart.
The world does not understand the Love that is selfless because it is
engrossed in the pursuit of its own pleasures, and cramped within the
narrow limits of perishable interests mistaking, in its ignorance, those
pleasures and interests for real and abiding things. Caught in the flames
of fleshly lusts, and burning with anguish, it sees not the pure and
peaceful beauty of Truth. Feeding upon the swinish husks of error and
self-delusion, it is shut out from the mansion of all-seeing Love.
Not having this Love, not understanding it, men institute innumerable
reforms which involve no inward sacrifice, and each imagines that his
reform is going to right the world for ever, while he himself continues to
propagate evil by engaging it in his own heart. That only can be called
reform which tends to reform the human heart, for all evil has its rise
there, and not until the world, ceasing from selfishness and party strife,
has learned the lesson of divine Love, will it realize the Golden Age of
universal blessedness.
Let the rich cease to despise the poor, and the poor to condemn the rich;
let the greedy learn how to give, and the lustful how to grow pure; let the
partisan cease from strife, and the uncharitable begin to forgive; let the
envious endeavor to rejoice with others, and the slanderers grow ashamed of
their conduct.
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