The Whole World is but One Family
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INTRODUCTION
I bad the pleasure and privilege of going
through     Dr. H. M. Munje's          Booklet
"Vasudhaiva-Kutumbakam"      which beautifully
demonstrates, on Scriptural authorities, the
fact that "the whole world is but one family."
It affords an interesting and enlightening
reading, and makes its readers realize the
depth of religious knowledge of its author.
It is interfused with quotations         from
•Atharva-Ved', Bhagwat Gita', •Yajur-Ved',
•Rig-Ved', 'Sam-Ved', etc., and also from the
BahA't Holy Writs.

Great unrest is noticeable in the world.
Its root cause is the disunity in thoughts and
actions of mankind. The main problem of
the day is the policy, not of pacification, but
of unification, aimed at establishing the lasting
peace in the world, and all efforts of the
leading luminaries of var,ious nations are
directed towards that end. How disunity
disturbing the World-Peace is to be eliminated.
and eradicated theologians ar J legislators,
politicians and diplomats, sr,ciologists and
educationists, economists and many other
well-wishers of human: fall the World over
have given their anxious thoughts to this
subject in order to bring about unity and the
Sovereign Remedy for establishing World-
Peace which actually lies in preaching and
demonstrating  world unity in thoughts, in
words and in deeds.

The said booklet has justifiably made a Valu-
able Contribution towards securing world unity
and peace by propagating and demonstrating
a fellow-feeling and synthetical development
of the same in all walks and at all levels of
human life based on the fundamental unity of
all Faiths. The said booklet also demonstrates
the aim and object of the Bah.i'i World Faith
emphasising its main points in an actually
workable God-given New World Order.

I wish every success to the said booklet as
also to the lofty Divine Cause it is dedi-
cated to.

Babula) Misra

Advocate, Head of the Law
Department,       V. S. S. D.
College, Kanrur, and General
Secre1ary o     the Sanatan
Dharma      Maha     Mandal.
I

God
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"He is called the Ancient, He again be-
cometh New today ; ( similarly ) day and
night are generated, ( this and that are )
semblances of one another."-Atharva   Ved,
X, 8-23.
God is immeasurably exalted above all
imaginable comparisons and likenesses. All
the examples and semblances mentioned in
the Divine Scriptures are only meant to facili-
tate our limited understanding and thus make
it capable enough to find out the Will of
God on earth and to obey Him voluntarily,
unreservedly and lovingly for its own benefit,
and not for the benefit of God Who is highly
exalted above all benefits and losses.
The relation of a craftsman with his handi-
work. a painter with his painting, a speaker
with his speech, a thinker with his thoughts,

the sun with its rays, and so on, described by
the Holy Books is but an example of the re-
lation which exists between the Greator and
His creation.   In fact, He is still Greater than
and far far superior to each and all the ex-
amples and similes.
Howsoever perfect a painting may be it
cannot understand the painter. Even if the
painter makes his own portrait, it is his like-
ness, and not he himself. All the accumulated
speeches of the speaker are not the speaker
himself. All the thoughts produced by the
thinker do not constitute the thinker himself.
Rays are but the emanations from the sun and
not the sun itself, inasmuch as the rays are
ever produced by and, therefore, dependent
upon the sun and the sun is not the sum
total of rays.
Though    the   Thinker is Omnipotent,
Omniscient    and Omnipresent      in all His
thoughts. yet thoughts are thoughts after all,
and not the Thinker Himself Who is the
Creator of all His thoughts. There is sharp
and inviolable line of demarcation in between
the two which is vividly expounded in all the
Divine Scriptures.

This discrimination between the thoughts
and their Thinker, speech and its Speaker,
the creation and its Creator: is very beautifully
and unambiguously explained by God in Shri-
mad Bhagwat Gita, Discourse XIII, 15 : 16 :

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"Without and within all beings, Immov-
able and also Movable, Unknowable because
of His imperceptible Subtlety, extremely near
and far away is THAT.
"Undivided amid beings and yet existing
as if divided, is that to be known as the
Supporter of beings ; He devoureth and also
doth create.'' -Gita, XIII, 15-16.
God alone, in his Own Incomparable
Singleness : is, by Himself, the Uncreated
Creator of the whole creation, Eternal in the
past, Eternal in the future, Omnipotent,
Omniscient, Omnipresent, Indescribable and
Inconceivable by all else except Himself.
It is He Who is the Sole Creator of time,
space, nature and all that are therein and even
beyond.
In comparison with Him all else are but
nothing. It is here that God is the Real Pre-
existence and all else besides Him exist only
by His behest throughout alJ eternity-an
eternity which is also His creation.

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The Man ifestatioo of God
Between the Creator and His creation there
is a Link called the Manifestation     of God
Who reveals in every age the Divine Will to
the world.

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"Those who know God in His Manifes-
tation    through a human     being know the
One Who dwelleth in the Most Great Abode ;
He Who knoweth the One Who dwelleth in
the Most Great Abode and Who knoweth
the Lord       of Generations    is the Great
Knower of God, those who know Him,
following Him, know the Pillar very well.''-
Atharva Ved, X, 7-17.
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"What    is that Pillar with Which the
Lord of Generations hath held fast all that is
visible ? 0, teach us, what is it exactly like ?"
-Atharva   Ved, X, 7-7.
This Pillar is the Divine Religion with
which the Lord of Generations            holds all
within Its All-Encompassing      grasp. This is
exquisitely explained in details at length in the
same Atharva Ved, X, in its whole 7th Sukta.
( 1) The Glory of the Creator, (2) the
attributes of the creation, and (3) The Com-
mand of the Creator to His creation, are the
Threefold Splendors revealed each time, in
His unerring     wisdom, by the Manifestation
of God in every age in order to instill a new
Life, enhance the spiritual growth and cause
the people to attain levels higher and higher
successively from age to age.

Thus the Manifestation     of God is not
God in His invisible and unknowable Essence
but God in His visible and knowable Glory
revealing for every cycle a definite pre-
ordained   measure of the Infinite      Divine
Knowledge, after having rendered the same,
graspable by and beneficial to mankind.

This way, the Sun of Divinity is reflected
in the perfect and sanctified Mirror of the
Manifestation  illuminating the people as long
as they rem a in turned towards     this holy
Mirror.

God Himself as He is, being invisible and
incomprehensible for us, is only known to us
in His Manifestation, in which Station, the
Unspeakable    talks to us Heart to heart,
unveils His Beauty Face to face, and actually
guides us, provided we earnestly seek His
Refuge, step by step in all our affairs and
activities.
The Divine Sun neither comes down from
His infinite heights of unknowable and un-
born Self-Existence nor does He become so
small as to be contained in the Mirror of the
Manifestation,   nevertheless, we see the Sun
in the Mirror and derive all our benefits
from the Sun shining from the Mirror.

If we say, looking towards the sun in the
Mirror : "Lo ; here is the Sun," we are not
wrong, if the mirror says, "I am not the
Sun, he too is right, and, if the Sun Himse)f, as
manifest in the Mirror, says through the Mir-
ror, "I am the All-Glorious Sun." He. verily,
uttereth nothing but the essence of Truth.
The Manifestation of God is like a radio-
te]evision set. Sometimes we hear the sound
of the cabinet and of the particles of mechan-
ism contained in the set itself, and sometimes
we listen to the sweet melodies of the
singer and even actually visualise him who
is. in himself, seated far far away from us and
even from the set.

It is here that the Divine Radio-Television
Set viz, the Manifestation of God, represents a
th reef old splendor : ( l) the Voice and the
Likeness of God Himself, (2) the Holy Spirit
of the Manifestation      Himself through whom
God is revealed to man, and (3) the physical
human body of the Manifestation of God or
Ishwari Avatar.

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"The Lord of Generations,         the One
greater than Whom none else is begotten,
the One clad in the attire of Manifestation,
entered, inhabiting the worldly abodes, bes-
towing the richest bliss to the people while
living among the people, is the Bearer of the
threefold splendor He it is Who possesseth
sixteen ('Kalas'   lit, parts)."-Yajur     Ved,
VIII, 36.

These "sixteen" are the following ~ ~ ~wllt
Sixteen   Kalas    representing  the th reef old
splendor of the Lord of the Generations :-
1. Outwardly the Manifestation of God
is a man like any one else. He has a body
composed of the 5 elements, viz. (1) ~

ear     (2) ~ water (3) olftt1     fire ( 4) q1~
air and (5) arTcfTT~heaven or space, with
their energies and the power of attraction called
~~cirr Dehatma.

He has (6) STTOTlife which is the po\ver
of growth or vegetative spirit called ~~citT
Beslzajatma.

He has (7) all fif~ the senses, and He
takes (8) 81''$1food for the maintenance of His
animal economy called trrocfTcJITPashavatma.

He has (9) lirfui Might or Power to choose
right or wrong ; it is this power which is
called the human spirit irfi{cflcJIT or o1clITcJIT
M anvatma or Adhyatma.

He has ( I 0) ~ Faith in God, Faith in
all that God hath revealed through His
Manifestation ; this is the spirit of Faith
~it~c'i I Dharmatma.

All the above ten Kalas are the attributes
of the creation each in accordance with and
proportionate to the different degrees of crea-

tion. All these are possessed by the Mani-
festation of God. This is one aspect of the
"threefold splendor."

II.   Another aspect is the Divine Spirit
~clkJ:ff Devatma or the Holy Spirit qfc1~1cirr
Pavitratma respresenting (11) ~ell a New Truth
(12) m.:ra greater Knowledge       (13) ~ an
(
unprecedented     Thought   (14) cfii:I'a newly
revealed Plan of action or deeds and ( 15) ii'f
the Holy Utterances or the Divine Command.

III. The third and the greatest of them
all is the aspect of God Himself q\Jfwrf
Paramatn1a represented by ( 16) ijTJJ Name,
and that is al I.

God,   verily, is the most manifest of the
manifest   and yet the most hidden of the
hidden.

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"The foolish disregard Me when clad I in
a human body ; they know naught My sup-
reme nature, I am the Great Lord of beings."
-Shrimad    Bhagwat Gita, lX, 11.

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ar~á~li    «~ <!iaftill~á
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"I stretch bow for the howling in order to
kill the tyrant and also enemies of the Great
God ; I create all happiness for the people, I
enter, prevailed in Heaven and earth, clad in
the attire of Manifestation."-Atharva    Ved,
IV, 30-5.
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"From time to time whenever there occurs
a downfall of religion.. 0 Bharat (Arjuna), and
the rise of irreligion, it is then that I send
forth My spirit.
"For the protection of those who achieve
Me, for the destruction of the wicked-doers,
and for firmly establishing the Religion, mani-
fest I Myself from age to age," -Gita,      IV,
7&8
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SJf.Jitfflqr;J-t

"From titne to time whenever Religion is
decreased, and the unholy, the irreligious, the
haughty people increase, the Lord adop-
teth a body different from time to time,
removeth, through His infinite bounties, the
calamities of the good people, destroyeth the
unholy, establisheth Holiness and protecteth
the Chain (Bridge) of His Own sacred know-
ledge and diffuseth His immaculate Glory
in the world. The same is the motive of His
Holiness Rama's descent" .-TUlsi Ramayan
Bal-Kand, 1st. Sopan, 129.
Religion is the greatest support which
resuscitates human beings through the instru-
mentality of the spiritual life of Faith in
God which means Faith in whatsoever God
has revealed through His Manifestation, as
there is no other way of knowing the Will of
God on earth.
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fqfiqI II-~~, ....      ~ ~ - ~ c;- ~ t-

"1 Know that Most Great Ruler \Vho
like the brilliancy of the Sun, is beyond dark-
ness ; having known Him alone is crossed
the mortal stage ; no way is known for going
but This."

"The Essentially unmanifestab]e    moveth
within, the Lord of Generations        vividly
manifesteth Himself repeatedly ; the steadfast
behold from all sides the A bode of the
Original Cause ; in That abide the worlds of
the universe." -Yajur-Ved, XXXI, 18 and 19.

The Manifestation  of God is the Meeting
Point of God beyond and the man on earth.
It is the Manifestation of God Who gives
us the Divine Knowledge not only theoreti-
cally but also in practice by actually living a
Human life exactly in accordance with what
He teaches us to do.

The Manifestation    of God is thus a
Practical Experiment conducted from time to
time by God himself in the laboratory of the
world in order to give us lessons of His
supreme Will.

God wants us to love one another. The
Manifestation of God, on one hand, in His
Capacity as the sole Mouthpiece of God,
commands us to love one another, and, on
the other hand, in his capacity as a simple
human being, he actually loves us and
demonstrates the meaning of love in action
and even the way through which we can love
one another. So much so, that while actuaUy
loving us he is conf rooted with bitter oppo-
sitions and surrounded by severe afflictions
and tortures which he patient]y bears and
thus teaches us yet another lesson of 'Patience
and forbearanceá in our lives.
God wants us to be rooted in truth. The
Manifestation of God, on one hand, pro-
claims this Divine Commandment to us, and,
on the other, he, in his capacity as a man
like us, lives an actual human life of truth-
fulness and piety. So that we may not say or
be led to think that truthfulness and piety
belong only to God, or that they are the
utopia, or that it is humanly impossible to
live a life of truthfulness and piety at all.
Whatever lesson God wants to teach us
He makes the Manifestation of God to first
put it in action in His own human life as a
perfect example and thus prove to mankind
beyond doubt that the particular Teaching is
humanly possible, and, therefore, each and
every human being can do it, provided he or
she cares to copy diligently the human life

and the manly aspect of the Manifestation
of God.
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- 111or,
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"Whatsoever the Most Great Man doeth,
the other people also do. It is He Who
setteth forth the Standard, by That the
people go.
"Neither the least work is there in the
three worlds, 0 Partha (lit. son of earth),
which should be done by Me, nor is there
any unobtained thing which should be ob-
tained ; I still occupy Myself in action.
"Should I not always occupy Myself, the
Unwearied. in action the people all round,
0 Partha, foil ow My path.
"Were       I not to        perform         action, these

people would be destroyed ; and, in that case,
I would become the author of confusion, and
I would slay these generations."-Gita,     Ill,
21, 22, 23 and 24.
The Manifestation of God is thrown amid
unspeakable tests and trials. He is surroun--
ded by countless oppressions and tyrannies.
He is left all alone as a man to encounter all
these and to face bravely, patiently and with
exemplary steadfastness and ultimately to
emerge out as a victor proving the triumph
of His Teachings which are not utopia but
a great practicable Plan and an actually
workable Programme for the betterment of
mankind. Those who follow Him with
unwavering Faith, love, devotion and unswer-
ving active obedience are the persons called
the re-born fa~ or resurrected or a New Crea-
tion after a Pralaya which was the annihilation
of the Spiritual Life or Divine Religion in
mankind.
This way the Spiritual Day and night,
Birth and death, Creation and annihilation,
Glory and abasement, Light and gloom,
Religion and irreligion, come and go forming
ages and cycles in the Spiritual World of
mankind the resemblance of which is the
visible day and night and the turning round
of this planet-our  earth ball.
The Manifestation of God is the Most
Great Care and the Incomparable  Facility.

provided to us by the Divine Providence out
of His sheer and most great compassion on us.

III
The Three Existences
There are three kinds of Existences :
I. The existence of God Himself Who
is All Alone abiding in His Own Place which
is much Holy above all places and spaces
created by Him, above all times, mentions,
utterances,   signs, descriptions, definitions,
heights and depths. He Himself is the only
self-existent One and the uncreated Creator
of all. It is He Who is birthless, shapeless
and peerless, unknowable, incomprehensible
and unimaginable. He is the Only pre-
existent Cause of all causes. He, thus, is
the First and the incomparable        kind of
Existence.
II. The existence of the Manifestation of
God is also called the Drawing-Point of the
Will of God or the Horizon for the Divine
Sun. The Manifestation of God is especially
created by God as a Holy Mirror to reflect
the Divine Attributes, Glory and Authority

on earth. It is through the Manifestation
of God that God reveals His Will, Knowledge,
Command, Intention, Mercy, Justice, Wrath,
Love, Mysteries,      Truth,   Splendours, the
Divine Method of living pious life, and what
not, exactly in accordance with the require-
ments and exigencies of mankind age after
age. This is how the Manifestation of God
is categorised as the second kind of existence.
III.   The world of creation, consists of
creations ranging from          (I) mineral, (2)
vegetable, (3) animal, and (4) human, to (5) the
spirit of Faith. This is the third category
of existence.      (I) mineral,     (2) vegetable,
(3) animal and (4) the human body are an
ruled by nature, but, the human spirit and
the spirit of Faith fall under the jurisdiction
of the Divine Law which is above nature.
The human spirit which is originally dark
is in the third category of existence called
the world of creation. The Manifestation
of God is the Light which comes from the
First and the Only Original Source of
all sources-God.       In comparison with light
the darkness is death. This fact is the essence
of truth which each and every human soul
1nust conscientiously      know      and  wilfully
recognize. Should the mirror of the spirit
of man be cleansed, polished and placed
facing the Manifestation       of God, it would.
no doubt, reflect the rays of the Divine
Commandments         in practical life and be

illumined thereby.   It is at this juncture that
we can safely say that the spirit of Faith has
actually entered into a human being. To
acquire this spirit of Faith is the first and
the fore most duty of each and every human
being which he or she should voluntarily and
painstakingly perform.     This is the supreme
truth in life which should be independently
investigated, thoroughly understood. sincerely
acknowledged     and translated     into actual
practical life, as without realizing this truth
the human soul remains in perpetual darkness.
It is this which has been unequivocally
proclaimed by the Upanishada in the form
of a prayer :-
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dffffl irr '7l{)fd•IJ:tll I
'}_cq)q~~qqzr        II
"From truthlessness, 0, lead me to the truth ;
From gloom, 0, lead me to Thy Kindly
Light ;
From mortality, 0, lead me to Immortality."
There are two main stages in which the
human spirit can move : one, the stage of
death controlled by nature, and, the other, the
stage of life which is supernatural.    In the
stage of death there are again three sub-
stages : (I) mineral, (2) vegetable, and (3)
animal.   When the spirit of rnan detaches
his heart and mind from these baser stages of

earthly appetite and sensual entanglements, he
becomes undefiled and fit for the reception of
the spirit of Faith which belongs to the higher
stage-the    stage of spiritual Life.
Our crossing the stage of death and acquiring
immortality is only through the kindly Light
of Truth which comes from the Manifestation
of God on earth.     To attain to Him is to have
complete Faith in and unreserved obedience
to whatsoever Commandments          have been re-
vealed through     the Manifestation     of God.
Spirit of Faith is a link between the Holy
Spirit of the Manifestation     of God and the
human spirit.
The human spirit is like a mirror.         The
first requisite is to cleanse the mirror from all
worldly defilements and polish the same to
the extent in which it becomes worthy, so that
the rays of the Sun of Truth may be reflec-
ted in it. The second requisite is to turn the
mirror towards the Sun. This is simply be-
cause of the fact that howsoever clean and
polished the mirror may be it is in itself the
dark substance.     It gets Light only through
the rays of the Sun of Truth.         To turn to-
wards the Sun of Truth is to have complete
Faith in the Manifestation      of God. to learn
His     Commandments       devotedly,   practically
and unreservedly      each time whenever the
Manifestation   of God appears on earth and
estab)ishes the Pillar of His religion in the
world.

This is what has been vividly and most
emphatically repeated over and over again in
each Holy Book by every Manifestation         of
God in many a nation and during all down
the ages.
This is the Way.        This is the Path.
This is called the Religion.        This is the
Pillar. This is the Will of God on earth.
This is the Command of God proclaimed
and re-proclaimed.     This is the Mercy of
the All-Merciful    showered in the past and
shall be successively showered all through the
future for ever and evermore.        This is the
irrevocable   Law     of God      for mankind.
Nothing else, nothing     less and nothing be-
yond. There is no other go but this :-

IV

Follow The Latest Command
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"Listen thou again to my Supreme, the
Most Hidden Word, favourite art thou to Me,
and steadfast of heart, I shall, therefore,
speak for thy benefit.
"Merge thy mind in Me, be My devotee,
sacrifice thyself to Me, prostrate thyself to Me,
thou shalt surely come upto Me. 1 pledge
thee My Truth ; beloved art thou to Me.
''Thoroughly      abandoning    all religions
come thou unto Me alone for shelter ; it is I
who will liberate thee from all sins."
-Shrimad Bhagwat Gita, XVIII, 64, 65 & 66.
We do not speak here in terms of this
religion or that religion. According to God
the Religion is man's strict obedience and
unconditional   surrender  to whatsoever is
revealed by and through His Manifestation
each time to the world. God's Will is not to
be questioned.    Because His Will is All-
Merciful. He loves us much more than what
we can ever hope to love ourselves. We, in
our ignorance and spiritual darkness, do not
appreciate what is good for us and cannot
give up what is not good for us. By Faith
in the Manifestation of God we get spiritual
Light. By that Light we are enabled to gain
the spiritual    Knowledge. The knowledge
of Truth gladdens our hearts and thus
strengthens us to do as we know. Once we
are stirred up to righteous deeds in exact
obedience to the revealed Will of God our

lives develop by leaps and bounds in com-
plete harmony     with the Divine     life as
practically demonstrated by the Manifestation
of God in His human life.
This condition is called the Kingdom of
God on earth or Sat Yug-the Golden Age
of Truth-which     is first established in the
hearts and minds of the individuals,         and
then gradually, as and how the number of
such Kingdom-holder-humans,          the bearers
of Sat-Yug, increase, the world, shall become
a new world, a better world, a Glorious
World, a ''BHAHI WORLD.''

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"0    Exalted    Fire ! 0 Thou Merged in
B HA H ( Glory) ! Rise          Thou     regularly
shining out brilliantly     Thine Own progres-
sively blazing Light ; make the world particu-
larly and especially BH AHi and never-getting-
old"-Sam       Ved,        Uttararchika,       VJ,
2-2-12-1-3/1385.
A Manifestation   of God is All-Glorious
and is God turned towards us in His Kindly
Light. But, we get this Light only when
we turn towards Him, and not when we turn
our backs against Him. When we face the
Manifestation of God it is our Day and when

we are in deep slun1ber spiritually it is as if
we have turned our backs against Him, this
is our night of the soul. Whenever the
number of these night-souls is increased in
abundance the spiritual darkness is prevalent in
the world, such an age is called the Kali Yug
or the Period of Gloom or strife. The whole
spiritual life-process is basically reversed in
that period, and hence, calamities, clashes,
afflictions, tyrannies and even the Wrath of
God come upon the people.
It is at such a critical hour of distress that
the Pitier of the downtrodden, the Patita-
Pavan, the Liberator of the sinners, makes
Hi1nself manifest in this wor)d through the
instrumentality of a Perfect Hun1an being,
and once again the Day of God dawns on
earth for Good.
But, alas, the persons of haughty, fastidious,
obstinate, vehement, lethargic, retrogressive,
aggressive, and such evil tendencies disobey
the newly revealed Commandments of God in
every age, refuse to partake of fresh Mercy
of God, and thus, spontaneously invite their
own annihilation.
It is this which has been symbolically des-
cribed by Atharva Ved, X 8-23, when it said
that :-
"He is called the Ancient, He again be-
cometh New Today ; (similarly), day and

night are generated, (this and that are)
semblances of one another."-Atharva Ved,
X, 8-23.

V
Divine Arrangement of Human
Affairs
The Most Ancient, the Essentially Pre-
Existent aspect of God, while still remaining
hidden in His Own invisible, unknowable
and unattainable     Entity, makes His other
aspect of Manifestation to appear before men
as a man, so that men may not be afraid of
Him, they can love Him intimately, discuss
with Him their problems and thus give Him a
chance to arrange the affairs of their lives and
establish a peacefully working order on earth.
This is the sole purpose of the Manifestation
of God in this world age after age.
In every age the same ancient Sun of
Truth generates and gives out new rays of
Teachings, Laws and Commandments, as He
is the Un-Exhausting Creator. He is never
fatigued like human morta]s.
At the same time His sole Unchanging
Law of Love Jives permanently ever-new and
ever-green   everywhere.   No changes and
chances of the ages and nations and no revo-
lutions of conditions, howsoever drastic they

may happen to be, can even hope                  to frustrate
this  ever-advancing    universal                  Law      of
Love.
In fact, it is for the protection and prog-
ress of this fundamental Law of Love that a
set of subsidiary laws suitable to every parti-
cular age is framed by God in His inscrutable
wisdom      and revealed     through   His Own
Manifestation of Love to Mankind.
According to this Law of Love, God
loves     Himself as also God loves His
creation ; we the creatures       should also
therefore, love God and at the same time
love one another among ourselves.
This is what has always been taught to us
right from the time of Rig Ved, the Most
Ancient-Known    and still extant Command
of God on earth :-

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"Like the enlightened ones of the past who
used to acquire their share in unity, live ye
all in harmony with one another, consort in
loving sweetness with all, be one in thought
and in knowledge."
"Let mind-protecting Divine Command-
ment be equal to all, let there be equal co-
mingling of ye all, let aJJ their minds be as one
mind, their attentions be in one accord. I
command ye all to be equal under One Holy
Command, I bring ye up all alike offering
Myself as a sacrifice."
"Be united in your purpose, let your
hearts be as one heart, minds of all as one
mind, so that your affairs may be co-operatively
well-organised."- Rig Ved, Khand 7, Ashtak
VIII, Mandal IO, 8-49/3, 10-191, verses 2nd
3rd and 4th.

VI

The Love-Seed Grows
The Law of Love is the fundamental
law of all religions whenever and wherever
they have been revealed.    As it is an ever-
living Law of God, it has got the power of
growth which makes it ever progressive non-
stop.    Any cessation thereof would mean
death.

In pre--historic ages individual human
beings lived isolated one from another. At
that time every individual's love of his or her
own-self kept all the limbs of his or her phy-
sical body in perfect unity and living health.
That was the sphere of love in action
in those days of the infancy of man-
kind ; and that was the limit of under-
standing of the individual human beings at
that time. Even at that time each human
being incessantly felt himself and herself
deficient in and by himself and herself. It is
only God Who is perfect in Himself and by
Himself, and nothing else.          What     was
deficient in man is deposited in woman and
what was lacking in her was created by God
in man. This made man and woman inter-
dependent, and hence, an irrepressible urge
of a wider unity-the love of man and woman
-was an established fact. This love, with all its
resultant factors and paraphernalia, just as the
institution and chastity of marriage, honesty
with one another, proper care and rearing up
of the children, children's obedience to their
parents, respect to elder brothers and sisters,
parents' duty of compassion towards children,
sweet relations between families-in--law, etc.
etc. was taught by the Manifestations of God
which is still found recorded in the ancient
Holy Scriptures intact. Even how to take bath,
how to sit and eat, how to sleep, how to talk
and many other points were taught in the anci-
ent Divine Books of Laws. This was the chan-
geable aspect of the Religion of God, as it
pertained to the worldly affairs of man which
always advanced along with the changing
conditions of mankind.       The unchangeable
aspect was the knowledge that there is a
God, and that God is One, Unknowable,
Indivisible, Non-Multiple, Pre-Existent, Ever-
lasting Creator of the whole creation; that from
Him we have all come and unto Him shall we
all return, that He, out of His Love and
compassion, sends on earth His Manifestation
from age to age with His sole Authority to
Whom we must all bow down in utter and
loving submissiveness ; as His Divine Autho-
rity is Absolute and unchallengeable, and that
obedient devotees shall be generously rewar-
ded by God and upon the deniers of His
Manifestation in every age shall con1e the
wrath of God and they will be severely
chastised for their disobedience.
This was coupled with a few prescnpt1ons
for prayers, fasting and such other ceremonies
suitable to the then capacities and circum-
stances of the people meant for the spiritual
upliftment of individual human souls.
Under this Divine Code of laws remained
humanity for a time developing itself gra-
dually to the levels beyond the confines of
familihood. As separate individuals, different
families also found each one in itself defi-
cient and in want of resources possessed by
other families.

At human souls, without Divine Guidance,
are dark in themselves, they started grab-
bing other's properties for making up their
own deficiencies, and tortured and butchered
others who stubbornly refused to part with
their possessions. There were feudal-fights
and family clashes which destroyed morales
in the human beings, and mankind wandered
a\vay from the Divine Path of Love-the
fundamental Law of Religion.
This necessitated (I) on one hand the
re-establishment     of love, the Essence of
Religion, and (2) on the other, the extension
of the sphere of action for the Law of Love,
from familihood to the City-State merging
within itself all the families forming one solid
unit.     Such Laws were revealed by the
then Manifestation of God as could create a
perfect shell in which humanity could safely
evolve to higher levels of life, both in the
earthly and the Spiritual realms.
Again, the life-force of Love rushed forth
and the boundaries of City-State were over-
thrown. That was, in fact, a heading forward
towards a still wider unity. But, alas, the
discarding of the divinely prescribed spiritual
virtues by human mortals became the cause
of warfare and miseries. Once again, the Law
of Love re-asserted itself through the Mani-
festation of God Who gave a larger set of
Laws which could            effectively establish
nation-building on one hand, and the individual
purification of human souls on the other.

All this was till yesterday. Today a still
wider condition is existing. Mankind as a
whole is not at all living in a national age.
VII
This Global Age
The whole human race, knowingly or un-
knowingly, is living at present in a global age,
though collectively yet not lovingly. Hence,
the very foundation of the Religion of God
is destroyed in the human life and soul as
a whole.
We say that we believe in some religion
or the other, but, what we actually mean by
the word religion is diametrically opposed to
the Religion of God. God never wanted us
to believe in this religion or that religion and
haughtily hate others. God never wanted us
to break His Divine Religion into hundreds
and thousand-s of sects, sub-sects and petty-
sub-sects with the followers of each small
group thinking themself to be the only sup-
reme people on earth and all other as demo-
niacal. God never wanted us to divide our-
selves in countless water-tight compartments.
God never wanted us to turn our prayers to
the darkened horizons. to utterly neglect the
broad foundation of God's sacred Laws, to
grow unmindful of the Merits and Virtues of
His Holy Religion and regard only certain cus-
toms, conventions, ceremonies, rituals, dogmas,

signs, symbols, murmur of a few verses, etc.
etc., to be our supreme attainments of the
glorious   pinnacle of spiritual  prosperity.
God never wanted us to fall down from the
Universal Law of Love to the nethermost
depths of pride and prejudice, hatred and
vainglory,   heedlessness  and    easy-going,
grabbing and looting, warfare and bloodshed.
In fact, God never wanted us to do anything
of what we are doing today. Should we
have our inner eyes opened we would surely
behold our pitiable and lamentable spiritual
downfall to the extreme in the minutest
analysis of each and all our thoughts, words
and deeds.

This insight was granted by God to many
a blessed Saints and Divine Seers of the past
who fore saw thousands of years ago the actual
conditions of this age and recorded the same
by way of prophecies in their Books of predic-
tions. They are innumerable. We read them.
We know them. We even realise that these
prophecies are proved to be word-by-word
true, and, yet, alas, a myriad times alas, that
we do not open our spiritual eyes, we do not
try in the least to radically change our ways
and views, and thus better our conditions by
paying sincere attention       to   the latest
Revelation of the Will of God on earth.
We would not recount all the scriptural
and other countless prophecies and predictions

over here. Only a few will suffice as our
eye- openers.

VIII
Sbri Ramchandraji's Prophecies
There is a bird's-eye view of Ka/i-Yug
(the Strife-Age) Shown more than five thou-
sand years ago by Shri Ramchandraj i, Himself
the Manifestation of God, to, and after hav-
ing been described by Kag Bbushundi to
Garuda     as recorded in Uttar Kand of the
Holy Ramayana as follows :-
"Listen to the treasury of Knowledge, 0
Knower of God ! I am telling you something
about the affairs of the Kali-Yug (the Age
of quarrel, the strife-period, the Iron-Age)
as visioned by me.
"The sins of Kali-Yug have swallowed all
religions, all the Sacred Books are concealed.
The hypocrite imposters have promulgated a
number of creeds which they themselves had
invented out of their own vain imaginings.
"The people had all fallen a prey to delu-
sions and all pious deeds had been swallowed
up by greed and evil passions.
"The right course for every individual is
that which one takes a fancy to ; a man of
erudition is he who plays the braggart.

"Whoever launches spurious undertakings
and is given over to hypocrisy, him does every
one call a saint.

"He alone is clever who robs another of
his wealth ; he who puts up false appearances
is an ardent follower of estab1ished usage.

"He who is given to lying and is expert at
joking is spoken of as a man of piety in the
Kali-Age.
"He who is a reprobate and has lazily
abandoned the path of the Vedas is a person
called the possessor of divine knowledge and
the renouncer of the world in the Kali- Yug.
"He whose nails are Jong and locks of
matted hair spread undressed is renowned as
a devoted ascetic at the time of Kali.
''They who are of maleficent conduct and
causers of harms to others are held in great
esteem and glorified.
"The babblers and liars at heart, in deeds
and words are eulogised as great orators in the
Kali-Age.
"Men are infatuated and dominated   by
women, 0 Gosai. and, to the feminine tune,
dance and trot like monkeys controlled by
their trainers.

"People are given over to sensuality, greed
and irascibility and are hostile to God, His
devotees, Divine knowledge and Saints.
"The disciple and the preceptor severally
resemble a deaf and a blind, the one would not
listen, while the other cannot see.
'' A spiritual guide who robs his disciple of
money but fails to rid him of his sorrow is
cast into the nethermost hell-fire.
"Parents calJ their children and teach them
such religion as may fill their belly.
Men and women talk much and high-
sounding about the Divine Knowledge and yet
in their greed for a worthless shell, they would
kill the righteous and even their own spiritual
guides.
"The person who doth not see any differ-
ence between him and God is considered as
the possessor of knowledge, this is the charac-
teristic condition and practise of the quarrel-
some age, Kali-yug, foreseen by me.

"Doomed themselves, such people bring
ruin even to those rare souls who tread the
path of truth.

"Each and every person who poluteth the
Vedas by dints of logic is condemned for each

one of his logics, to a bell for ages and cycles
together.

''All persons foJlow the courses of conduct
at the dictates of their own vain imaginings ;
the endless variety of wrong-doings find no
words horrible enough to cover the atrocities.

"There are illegitimate admixtures every-
where ; and the people, infringing the Sacred
Laws, divide against themselves.

"They perpetrate sins and reap fear, dis-
ease, grief, separation and desolation.

"Overcome by delusion and selfish motives,
the people walk not in the path of devotion to
God consistent with the accumulated discrimi-
nations pointed out by the well-experienced
persons whose hearts are detached from the
world-a path which has the approval of the
Vedas-and      fabricate countless ways and
diverse creeds of their own.

"Overwhelming wealth is accumulated in
the abodes of the detached sages, the prosti-
tutes have snatched away the wealth as also
the health and strength.
"The detached bachelors, sages and ascetics
are enormously wealthy, whereas the married
and earning people are poor ! 0 God !

What an unspeakably astonishing      is this fact
taking place in the Kali Yug !

"Sons obey their parents only till they do
not bring mates in their homes.

"As soon as a man starts loving his wife's
family, his own parents and family appear be-
fore him as his enemies.
"Kings and rulers have become slaves to
their sins, having fined and tyrannised their
subjects increasingly every day.

"Monied people, though churl and wretch-
ed, are honoured as nobles.

"The sign of the re-born (Brahmin) is the
so-called sacred thread he wears and of the
ascetic his nakedness.
"The multitude of poets is increased, and
no generous one to reward them ; they are
exaggerating to the extent unheard of in the
world. so much so that not a single poet is
counted as a strictly-metred  one in virtues
and piety.
"There are famines again      and again,   the
poor people starve and die.
"Listen, 0 Khagesh ! There are duplicity,
perversity, deceits, obstinacies,  haughtiness,
hatred, heterodoxy, heresy, hypocrisy, flattery,

concupiscence, infatuation, arrogance, beating,
drunkenness, etc. etc., prevailing all through-
out the world.

''People have adopted, with unholy motiv-
es, muttering of Holy Verses, penance, offer-
ing of sacrifice, fasting, alms-giving ; Divine
Bounties are not showered on earth ; seeds
sown do not yield food.

''The foolish wish for happiness and do
not attach themselves to Religion. Small-
mindedness,    stony heartedness,  and un-
hum bleness (no-softness) prevail.

''People are afflicted with diseases and
maladies. No proper feeding. Pride and
antagonism for nothing.

"None finds his own faults, nor is there
any cool-headedness.     High and low caste
people, all are begging.

"Jealousy, sword-like words, covetousness
overflow equally in all those who go astray.

"Alms-giving is due to pride. there is no
trace of mercy at all. Readings are full of
materialism.

"Men and women everywhere are their
own body-feeders, Slanderers of others are
spread throughout the world."

IX
Markandeya Rishi's Predictions
Yudhishthir, five thousand years back,
asked questions regarding Kali Yuga, and
Markandeya Risbi replied as recorded in
"Maha-Bharata" :-
" At the end of Kali Yug there shall be
great revolutions      in the society ... people
will begin to doubt the life after death,
lrreligion    will be rampant ... All        will
malign each other in order to praise them-
selves. Religion will be vanquished by irre-
ligion, truth by falsehood, kings by slaves and
men by women. Pious people will be short-
lived and miserable, and the impious will be
longlived and wealthy, Religion will be
annihilated and sins will prevail all over.
"Talkativeness   will be considered as the
sign of culture.
"People will not respect their oral
promises and their oaths.         Greedy, cruel
and bandit-like kings will grab the wealth,
properties and women of their subjects.
Extremes of cold, heat, mist, wind, rain,
hunger, thirst, plagues, dissensions and worries
will cause great human suffering ... Monied
people will be considered of good clan and
breed, virtuous and noble. They alone will
be highly respected. Poverty will be consi-

dered as a sign of impiety. Earning members
of the families will be so overtaxed that they
would amass wealth by deceitful means. A
little wealth will swell people's heads with
pride and boasting ; ...
"Brute-force will be considered as the only
criterion for justice and religion.

"Brother will be dishonest to his brother.
No one will befriend another.     None will do
good even to his friend without the expectation
of money.       Friendship  will be maintained
only for pastime. Husband will recognise his
wife to be his only friend ... Crows will
increase and crow the whole time .. .In order
to earn their livelihood        men will travel
round the world. The whole earth will be
trodden by all castes and classes of people ...
Merchants     will be greedy and will deceive
their   customers ... Travellers   not  finding
food, water and refuge will sleep on public
thoroughfares.

"Learned priests will hide the Truth.       No
one would be able to understand the correct
meaning of the Scriptures.     The vain-glorious
priests, having forsaken righteousness,        mis-
interpret the Holy Scriptures.       Talkativeness
will be considered a sign of learning. The
priest will, in the name of religion, entrap the
people.
"The   whole world        will be   full of   evil-

thiLkers ... Many evil-thinkers will become
kings and rulers.        They will fleece the
people through falsehood, dishonesty, in-
justice and tyrannical Jaws. Ultimately they
will fight with each other and they will at-
tempt to destroy one another. At such a time
as this there will be cataclysmic world wars,
universal conflagrations and world calamities."
Beloved brothers and sisters ! The signs
of the present age show us well the fast appro-
aching end of the age of gloom and strife.
After every gloom there is a light. As an un-
failing law of nature the day must foil ow the
night.    The Divine Religion must be re-
established and the whole human race collec-
tively must find rest and upliftment, love and
spiritual Unity.
To-day we are facing global problems, and,
hence we must have global solutions, a planet-
wide plan for peace and progress, a smooth
working order encompassing the whole earth-
ball. No smaller unities or narrower outlook
can in any way solve any of our complex pro-
blems burning throughout the whole world.
''~      ~~cfiir'    "The whole world is
but one f amity" is the Divine Dictum we all
must conscientiously recognize, unhesitatingly
profess and unflinchingly put into practice in
all walks of our daily life right from now on.
The Divine Call of the Law of Love today
is universal and nothing less.

X

The March of Love Continues
The undivided and unselfish Spiritual
Love, marching from victory to victory age
after age from isolated individuals to family-
units, from family units to city-states, from
city states to nation building, and from nation-
building to international-units,    has, for the
first time in the annals of human life on this
planet, pressed forward in its full bloom to
the whoJe world penetrating each and every
corner and embracing all the departments of
human activities in this century.
To-day we have to form this whole world
as one soJid unit. Might be, our next step,
after a thousand years or so, would bring
about an inter• global unity, a still wider range
for the functioning of the Holy Law of Spiri-
tual Love.
The only right method of re-establishing
and spreading genuine and mutual love in
the hearts is the peaceful, loving, dynamic,
spiritual Renaissance of mankind as a whole.
Unless and until this is effected no permanent
world-peace, no true happiness, no real spiri-
tual, mental and material progress is going to
come. This is simply because of the fact,
that the roots of the evil tree of all our present-
day problems have gone deep into the very
hearts and minds and souls of the people all

throughout    the world with its manifold re-
mifications in our religious, economic, social
and political life.
This evil     tree of problems    must be
thoroughly uprooted       in order to establish a
living universal      peace having a completely
warless world, a smoothly running economic
world order, an undivided planet-wide human
society, and the spiritual and religious unity
of mankind as a whole, all sprung up from
the innermost      consciousness of the funda-
mental Universal Unity of the Religion of
God.
This is the only radical cure of all our
diseases and maladies         in this global age.
Without    this, all other patching      up work,
here and there, whether local, national or
even international,  is doomed to fail.
Sooner or later we aJI must of a necessity
realize this supreme fact of the day we live
in. The sooner the better.         Let us do our
duty conscientiously     before it is too late, so
that we may not have to repent after losing
the Blessed opportunity     offered by the Divine
will of God on earth in this age for us.

XI

God Heals The World
This is the call of God in this age :
"That which the Lord hath ordained          as

the Sovereign Remedy and Mightiest Instru-
ment for the healing of all the world is the
Union of all its people in one universal Cause,
one common Faith. This can in no wise be
achieved except through the power of a Skill-
ed, an All-powerful and Inspired Physician.
This, verily, is the Truth, and all else naught
but error.
••o friends !    It behoveth you to refresh
and revive your souls through the gracious
favours which in this Divine, this soul-stirring
spring time are being showered upon you.
The Day Star of his Great Glory hath shed
its radiance upon you, and the clouds of
His Limitless      Grace    have overshadowed
you.    How high the reward of him that
hath not deprived himself of so Great a
Bounty, nor failed to recognize The Beauty of
his Best-Beloved in This, His New Artire
Watch over yourselves, for the evil one is
lying in wait ready to entrap you. Gird up
yourse1ves against his wicked devices, and, led
by the Light of the Name of the All Seeing
God, make your escape from the darkness that
surroundeth you. Let your vision be world-
embracing, rather than confined to your own
self. The evil one is he that hindereth the
rise and obstructeth the spiritual progress of
the chi]dren of men.
"Through each and every one of these
Verses which the Pen of the most High hath
revealed, the doors of Love and Unity have

been unlocked    and flung open to the face of
men ...

"Consort with the followers     of all reli-
gions in a spirit of friendliness   and fellow-
ship ...
"It is not his to boast who loveth          his
country, but it is his who loveth the world.
"Mankind in its entirety must firmly ad-
here to whatsoever hath been revealed and
vouchsafed unto it. Then and only then
will it attain unto true liberty. The whole
earth is illuminated    with the resplendent
Glory of God's Revelation.
"Be ye as the fingers of one hand,           the
members of one body.

"Consider the Mercy of God and His
Gifts.   He enjoineth upon you that which
sha11 profit you, though He Himself can weJl
dispense with all creatures.     Your evil doings
can never harm us, neither can your good
works profit us. We summon you who11y for
the sake of God. To this every man of under-
standing and insight will testify ...

"He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful,
cherisheth in His Heart the desire of behold-
ing the entire human race as one soul and
one body.

"The Great Being Saith : 0 ye children
of men ! The fundamental purpose animating
the Faith of God and his Religion is to
safeguard the interests and promote the unity
of the human race and to foster the spirit of
love and fellowship amongst men. Suffer it
not to become a source of dissension and
discord, of hate and enmity.        This is The
Straight   Path, the Fixed and Immovable
Foundation.      Whatsoever is raised on this
Foundation, the changes and chances of the
world can never impair its strength, nor will
the revolution of countless centuries under-
mine its structure.     Our hope is that the
world's religious leaders and the rulers
thereof will unitedly arise for the reformation
of this age and the rehabilitation of its for-
tunes. Be pure, 0 people of God, be pure ;
be righteous, be righteous"
XII
The Prerequisites of World Peace
"The Great Being wishing to reveal the
pre-requisites of the peace and tranquillity of
the world and the advancement of its people,
hath written : the time must come when the
imperative necessity for the holding of a vast,
and all embracing assemblage of men will be
universally realized. The rulers and kings of
the earth must needs attend it, and, participat-
ing in its deliberations, must consider such
ways and means as will lay the foundations of

the world's Great Peace amongst men. Such
a peace demandeth that the great powers
should resolve for the sake of the tranqui-
llity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully re-
conciled among themselves.       Should any king
take up arms against another, all should uni-
tedly arise and prevent him. If this be done,
the nations of the world will no longer require
any armaments,       except for the purpose of
preserving the security of their realms and of
maintaining internal order within their terri-
tories. This will ensure the peace and compo-
sure of every people, government and nation.
We fain would hope that the kings and rulers
of the earth, the mirrors of the gracious and
Almighty Name of God, may attain unto this
station,   and    shield   mankind     from    the
onslaught of tyranny.
"The day is approaching        when all the
peoples of the world wil1 have adopted one
universa1 language and one common script.
When this is achieved, to whatsoever city a
man may journey, it shall be as if he were
entering his own home.          These things are
obligatory and absolutely essential.    It is in-
cumbent upon every man of insight and under-
standing to strive to translate that which hath
been written into reality and action.       That
one indeed is a man who, today. dedicateth
himself to the service of the entire human
race. The Great Being saith : Blessed and
happy is he that ariseth to promote the best

interests of the peoples and kindreds of the
earth. J n another passage He hath proclaimed :
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth
his own country, but rather for him who
loveth the whole world. The earth is but one
country and mankind its citizens.
"Lay not aside the fear of God, 0 kings
of the earth, and beware that ye transgress
not the bounds which the Almighty hath
fixed.
"Walk ye in the fear of God, and be ye of
them that lead a godly life. Rest not on your
power, your armies and treasures.   Put your
whole trust and confidence in God, Who hath
created you, and seek ye His Help in alJ your
affairs.
"Know ye that the poor are the trust of
God in your midst. Watch that ye betray not
His trust, that ye deal not unjustly with them
and that ye walk not in the ways of the
treacherous.
"The well-being of mankind,        its peace
and security, are unattainable       unless and
until its unity is firmly established.       This
unity can never be achieved so long as the
counsels which the Pen of the Most High
hath revealed are suffered to pass unheeded.
"That the divers communions of the earth,
and the manifold systems of religious belief,
should never be allowed to foster the feelings

of animosity among men, is, in this Day, of
the essence of the Faith of God and His
Religion.     These principles and laws, these
firmly-established and mighty systems, have
proceeded from one Source, and are the rays
of one Light.      That they differ one from
another is to be attributed to the varying
requirements of the ages in which they were
promulgated.
"0 inhabitants of the world ! Of one tree
are ye all the fruits and of one bough the
leaves.
"0 people ! The Day, promised unto you
in all the Scriptures, is now come.
"Glory  be to Him Who, through the
power of truth, hath sent down the Manifes-
tation of His Own Self and entrusted Him
with His Message unto all mankind.

XIII

The Promised One is Come
"Behold, He is now come.         Wherefore
are ye downcast and dejected ? Why re-
main despondent when the Pure and Hidden
One hath appeared unveiled an1ongst you ?
He Who is both the Beginning and the End,
He Who is both Stillness and Motion, is now
manifest before your eyes. Behold how, in
this Day, the Beginning is reflected in the end,

how out of stillness motion hath been engen-
dered. This motion hath been generated by
the potent energies which the Words of the
Almighty have released throughout the entire
creation.
"Acknowledge the exalted character of the
Name of the Lord, your God, Who hath
come unto you in the greatness of His Glory.
He, verily, is the All-Knowing, the All-Posse-
ssing, the Supreme Protector.
"Verily, I say, this is the Day in which
mankind can behold the Face, and hear the
Voice, of the Promised One. The Call of God
hath been raised, and the Light of His count-
enance hath been lifted up upbn men. It be-
hoveth every man to blot out the trace of every
idle word from the tablet of his heart, and to
gaze, with an open and unbiased mind, on the
signs of His Revelation, the Proofs of His
Mission, and the tokens of His Glory.
"Great indeed is this Day! The allusions made to
it in all the sacred Scriptures as the Day of God
attest its greatness. The soul of every Prophet of
God, of every Divine Messenger, hath thirsted for
this wondrous Day. All the divers kindreds of the
earth have, likewise, yearned to attain it."
-"Gleanings   from the Writings of
Baha,u'llah, Vll"
Baba 'u' llib (Jit. "The Glory of God'').
Right from the time of the Holy Vedas
the most ancient Divine Scriptures still ex:
tant in the world, we have been taught to pray
to God beseeching him thus :-
SIT~'{  ,=~=u: I
dt«fctgq (Vll. 11irftqt4 ~ I

~ lfR:Sl~ct41CJ.      ~ (~), ~áX-\~-~ o,
II 5f{•q~,
atfT                                            ~
~,ttcr<f, \ ('~). c;-t ~-'t- to, arf<fifi~
u~, '"\~, ~inft.
"0 Thou the Protector of all ! the Giver
of life to all r the Remover of difficulties ! the
Ordainer of perfect working Order !
"0,    cause us to receive that most great
All-Subduing GLORY OF GOD Who, en-
lightening our intelligence and deeds, inspireth
progress."-Rig     Ved, III, 3-3-5-62-10; Sam
Ved, IV, 3-8-13-4-10, Verse 1462; &c.
This Holy Verse is called the Gayatri
Mantra, and is considered to be the Ved-Mata,
the Mother of the Vedas.
This was among the first glimmerings
of the sacred knowledge of God on earth,
still preserved intact by His Supreme Mercy
for our guidance to the "GLORY OF GOD''
even upto this day.
This GLORY OF GOD was actually
visualised by Arjuna through the Divine Eye
f464'1~ granted to him by Shri Krishna
when He showed His extensive Universal
Form ft.<1e.fcl~q(!Xf
which was then hidden in
Him.

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fu°(t{T~ iicf~fi.RmlS@
SIUIQ.1                   II iftar- ~ ~ -~ ".
''Then, he, Dhananjaya    (Arjuna),   over-
whelmed with astonishment,      his hair    up-
standing in ecstasy, bowed down his head
to the God, and with joined palms spake."
-Gita, XI. 14.
a"~f~~                 +fT«@qTITT:Sfc(Cj@fqtiufl l1
Gf1R«1-Rf.
if@T ~ ~-~ 0
"With splendours having filled the whole
World Thine Blazing BHAH,         0   Vishnu,
(the Omnipresent God), doth glow intensely."
-Gita, XI, 30
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Fefer
~ m: «E:~f)m m~~~ ~wrr1: 11

-,;ft rftaT, ' ' - ' ~ •
''Were thousand suns to rise and shine
out together at a time in the sky, it would
then perhaps be like that of the BRAH of
that Most Great Spirit."-Gita XI, 12.
lf'IT ~ijf   cf~~~:        ij"iis{fhllfll~T slcrffi
I
fflfTocflfiirf(wTcficiTI:T
fqQi@
cltf'I,aqfufqGcCefu
if@r ',-~t;
"As rivers with many floods of waters
rush impetuously facing towards the ocean,

so also these, Thine heroes in the world of
men, enter into Thine      intensely blazing
mouths."- Gita, XI, 28.
It is upto us now to show our spiritual
heroism and be inseparably united once for
all in the Universal Ocean of the BAHA'f
WORLD FAITH revealed over a century ago
in the midmost heart of the globe and study
deeply and wholly the Baha'i New World
Order which is 'divine in origin, all-embracing
in scope, humanitarian        in its principles,
broad in its outlook, scientific in its methods
and dynamic in the influence it exerts on the
hearts and minds of the people.'
There is no problem in the world at pre-
sent which the Divinely-Inspired and detailed
Teachings of the Baha'f World Faith do not
thoroughly solve indeed. It has revealed ( 1)
a Divine Polity for the firm establishment of
permanent world peace without war, (2) a
smoothly working world economy, (3) a peace-
ful and loving social order, and (4) a religious
world unity without pride and prejudice ; all
these under "One Universal Cause, one
Common Faith."
Doubtlessly, the greatest and the only
disease of the world at present is disunity,
and, therefore, the Sovereign    Remedy is
nothing but world unity-unity    in thoughts,
unity in words and unity in deeds of man-
kind as a whole.

XIV

The Unerring Prescription
"The All-Knowing physician hath His
finger on the pulse of mankind. He per-
ceiveth the disease, and prescribeth, in his
unerring wisdom, the remedy."
-Baba 'u' llah

Some of the ingredients of the unfailing
remedy for the betterment of the entire
human race on the surf ace of the earth in
this age are as follows :-
1. Universal unity of mankind         as a
whole in thoughts, words and deeds.
2. Absolute independence to each indi-
vidual in investigating the Truth for himself
or herself.
3. Fundamental unity of all religions
forming one undivided world-wide organic
unity.
4. Religion must be potent enough to
establish actual world unity in each and every
department of human life.
5. Religion must be potent enough to
enhance and utilize science for the betterment
of mankind.     There must be an universal

control of science for the benefit of the whole
world.

6. Men and women, the two wings of the
bird which is mankind, must always progress
and soar heavenwards with the same impulse
having equal opportunities    and equitable
privileges and duties.

7. All sorts of prejudices and hatreds
must be forgotten and all barriers between
man and man must be removed once for
all.

8. Universal peace must be established
on the sure foundation of spiritual humanism
and the political machinery must be univer--
sally spiritualized as a whole.

9. Spiritual solution of all the economic
problems of the world. A world plan for (a)
agricultural upliftment, (b) industrial justice,
(c) laws pertaining to taxation, and (d) to in-
heritance, were divinely revealed a century ago
offering an infallible economic justice for the
unification of mankind as a whole.

10. Education must be compulsory, uni--
versal and ever-progressive.

11. One universal language and script,
auxiliary to the mother tongue of every one,

must be compulsorily taught to each and
every boy and girl on the surf ace of the earth
in order to remove all misunderstandings and
foster a genuine feeling of the universal
human unity, spiritual, mental and material.
12. One Universal House of Justice,
exercising a th reef old authority-legislative,
executive and judicial-supreme     and binding
in all respects, must be firmly established to
maintain peace, Jove, unity, justice, happiness
and advancement of humanity at large.

xv
The Seed Returns in Fruit
The    Baba'{ World     Faith    has been
presented to-day by the Almighty Himself
as the fulfilment and completion of all the
ancient Faiths, no matter in whatever land
or age they may have been revealed. Thus
the Baha'f Faith bears to all past Holy
Dispensations exactly the same relation as the
fruit bears to the flowers, the branches, the
trunk, the roots, the seed, nay, rather, the
whole tree.     The Baha'i World Faith is
the Fruit     containing in itself the most
Ancient Living Seed. It is nothing but the
Fruit for which the seed was sown and it is
nothing    but the Fruit    that    the  Seed
returns in a fresh and new Life. In this
sense, the Baha'1 World is a New Creation of

God, the Most-Great   and   the Glorious
Creator, Who is the Most Ancient Pre-
Existence, and Who again becomes New
Today through The Universal Manifestation
of ''THE GLORY OF GOD."

BAHA't HISTORY
On May 23, 1844, a radiant youth of Persia, known as
the Bab proclaimed His mission of heralding the coming
of a Mighty Educator who would quicken the souls,
illumine the minds, unify the consciences and remould
the customs of mankind. After six years of heroic
steadfastness and ardent teaching, in July 9, 1850, the
Bab became victim of fanatical persecution and was
publiciy martyred at Tabriz, Iran.
Upon this preparation, the foundation of the Cause
was laid by Baha'u'llah (Glory of God), whose universal
principles of personal and social regeneration were
revealed under conditions of cruel oppression
unequalled in the annals of religion.
As the desperate forces of reaction gathered against
Him, Baha'u'llah and His little band of faithful followers
were imprisoned in Tihran, stripped of their property
and rights, exiled to Baghdad, to Constantinople, to
Adrianople, and at last, as the supreme infliction, in 1868
confined for life in the desolate barracks of 'A kka,
Turkish penal colony.
Baha'u'llah passed away in 1892. From then until His
own ascension in 1921, 'A bdu'l-Baha, the eldest son of
Baha'u'llah served the Cause as its appointed leader and
interpreter, and through His unique devotion, purity of
life, tireless effort and unfailing wisdom, the message,
slowly but surely, penetrated to all parts of the world.
'Abdu'l-Baha, through His Will and Testament,
appointed His grandson, Shoghi Effendi, as the Guardian
of the Baha'i Faith and the authorized interpreter of the
word of God. He organised the Administrative order of
Baha'u'llah- whose supreme body, the Universal House
of Justice is today guiding the affairs of the Baha'i Faith.

DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN

"The Baha'i Faith has been attempting all these
years to underline the unity of religions and not over-
stress the differences. I hope it will continue to do
that work."

"I have been for long an admirer of the Baha 'f
Faith, as it does not lay emphasis on the outer dogmas
but stresses the inward conviction."

SHRIG.V.MAVLANKAR

"It has given me a new approach and a new light
about the occasional coming of Prophets. Indeed it
seems inevitable that Prophets must come in this world
as Humanity progresses if civilisation and culture have
to continue their progress on the basis of human
evolution. This conception of the coming of a Prophet
from time to time to put humanity on a firmer basis
by a new outlook on religion and new social conditions
is identical with the concept of the Hindu philosophy
as expounded in the Bhagwad Gita. In fact it would be
wrong to call it even the Hindu philosophy. It
is properly named as the "Philosophy of the Human
Life," (Manava Dharam Shastra). The Lord had told
Arjun that "whenever there is any decline in the
observance of Dharma, I come again on earth to re-
establish it." What else is this but an assurance that
the Prophets appear from time to time as the con-
ditions and needs of the Society change ?
..
The conception of "One God and One Humanity"
is the need of the day for progress of humanity and
world peace. I am happy that the Bah6'i Faith is
making world-wide endeavour in the desired direction
and I am sure that it wHI achieve success in the end."

SADHU T. L. VASWANI

"The nations today, are passing through a new
Dark Age, dark forces threaten civilization, even Asia
is turning away from her precious heritage of the ages
and trampling upon the ancient wisdom of her seers and
sages.

India herself-the    world's hope-is    invaded by
chaotic forces. But there are groups in India and
Europe, there are groups in America, groups in different
parts of the world that still dream of a new world
order, a new world-wide brotherhood of East & West,
a new fellowship of religions and races, a new a waken-
ing of women all over the world, a new world peace.
In this dream of Rishis and Prophets is the heart of
Baha'i Faith, in this dream of the seers and poets is the
promise and potency of Baha'u'llah's revelation to our
age."

SHRI A. RAMASW AMI MUDALIAR

"You are the fruits of one tree and )eaves of one
branch," says the Prophet. Again and again I have
come across such sayings which have forcibly reminded
me of the teachings of the Vedas. "Whenever virtue
subsides and vice triumphs, then I am reborn to redeem
mankind," says the Divine in the Gita. The Baha'i
Faith remarkably speaks not of one Prophet for all time,
but of a succession of Prophets as Divine Dispensation
sees the need for them.
...
In fact the Bah.1'1 Faith gives us the great and
precious message of unity in religion. The Bahfil's do
not form a sect by themselves. Rather through the
teachings of their prophet, they try to illumine the
eternal verities of every religion and to quicken the
noble impulses of the true followers of every religion
with the spirit of catholicity and fraternalism.  How
much the world needs such a spirit today.

Perhaps the Baha'i Faith is destined to be. and
may prove the greatest single force in achieving that
Godly consecrated consummation."

MRS. SAROJINI       NAIDU
"The founder of the Baha'i Faith is undoubtedly
one of the Great Seers of the modern age. The gospel
that he enunciated and the programme that he enjoined
upon his followers are singularly like a prophecy of the
ideal and dreams that inspire the heart of youth with the
quest for a brave new world built upon equity and
fellowship of peace. In the midst of all the tragic horror
of hate and bloodshed that surround us today. His
message to humanity does indeed fulfil the meaning of
His name and carries the Glory of God into the
darkness."

PROF. BENOY KUMAR SARKAR
"For over a quarter of a century-since my American
days-I have been under the conviction that the Baha'i
Movement serves to expand the intellectual or moral
personality of every individual that comes into contact
with it. The movement has set in motion some of those
currents of thought and work which lead to the silent
but effective conversion of men and women to humaner
and world embracing principle of daily conduct because
of these creative forces in the social domain the Bah:1'1
movement is to be appreciated as one of the profoundest
emancipators of mankind from the tradition of rare
ch'avinism and ethno-religious bigotry."

iv
..The Revelation proclaimt•d by Baha'u'llah. His
follower.; believe, is Divine in Origin, all-embracing
in scope, broad in ils outlook. ,cientific in its
methods, humaniurian in its principle, and dynamic
m the influence ii enrts on the hearts and minds of
men."
..God's purpose is none other than to u,her in,
in ways He alone an bring about, and the full
significance of which He alone can rathom, lhe great,
the Golden Age of a long~ivided, a long-affiicted
humanity. Its present sute, indeed even its
immediate future, is dark, distressingly dark. Its
disunt future, however, is radiant. gloriously radiant
- \O radiant that no eye an visualize it."
..It is towards this goal-the goal of a New World
Order, Divine in origin. all embracing in scope,
equiuble in principle, challenging in its feature\ -
I hat a harassed humanity mu,t ,1rive."
- Shoghi Effendi.
-- The Whole World is but One Family (Used by permission of the curator)