n8 Evolution of Life and Form. 



and to death, because the life that was in him recog- 

 nised the service of the ideal as evolving the real 

 life, and the body as a mere garment to be thrown 

 aside when dnty called ? Without that training, 

 no Brahmana conld be ; no man could come into 

 the caste of the Brahmana, save as he had gone 

 through that discipline in the ranks of the Kshat- 

 triya ; because until he had learned that life was 

 everything and form nothing and that is the lesson 

 which war teaches when it is rightly understood 

 until that lesson was learned, he was not prepared 

 for the far harder evolution of the life, which is to 

 master the lesson of unity beneath diversity, of 

 love beneath antagonism, of being the friend of 

 every creature and the foe of none. 



When the intelligence has developed, when it has 

 reached a fairly high standpoint, the germs of the 

 next aspect of Deity begin to show themselves in 

 man ; and that aspect is A'nanda, Joy or Bliss. But 

 in what does A'nanda really consist? It is in 

 the drawing together of separated objects and uni- 

 ting them into one. That is the essence of Bliss, 

 that the very core and heart of the next stage of 

 evolution. In the old days of Hinduism, this was 

 called the life of the Brahmana, when the Brahmana 

 was really a Brahmana and had no further birth 

 before him on the wheel of births and deaths. In 



