SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

I9# TREK OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.
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When deeds perished, and with it wealth,
When flesh perished, and with it life,
When mind perished, and its cause Akas,
Then my * I perished, I did not know.
O, my Lord of Kafichi, when the elements, senses and sensations,
The differing gunas and desires, and sense of time and space,
When all these are lost in the blissful vision,
Then am I freed from all evil and rest in peace.
The original fall was brought about by disobeying God s
Law, by opposing our will to his Will, and the only way of
salvation consists in establishing the harmony of will between
His and ours, and completely subordinating our will to His
own, and allow His Will to be done as it is in heaven.
When we were first created, we were just like children,
fresh and innocent, fully trusting and depending on our lovingparents,
without caring for the morrow, fully obeying their
dictates, and never asserting ourselves nor becoming self- willed.
But the child preserves this condition only fora short time; it
would not abide by the loving words of wisdom and warning
given to it, would know for itself ;
and slowly its desire and
self-will are developed, and in its ignorance and conceit, it
accumulates the load of Karma. And unless we become again
like children abiding in trust and faith completely on our
Beloved Father, we cannot get rid of this sin and sorrow. And
unless we become born again, we cannot see the Kingdom of (
heaven as declared by the same Jesus Christ, whom the world
thought he was beside himself /. ?., mad. And our St. Tayu-