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222 THE FOUR PATHS,<br />

And then, we will not see the mote in our brother s eye,<br />

and will live in peace and amity for ever.<br />

I<br />

only need quote to you one verse from the Git a, where all<br />

these four paths<br />

are set forth.<br />

&quot;Therefore, with bowing and body bent, I ask grace of thee,<br />

Lord and Adorable, as father to son, as friend to friend,<br />

it is<br />

meet, O Lord, to bear with me as Lover to Loved.&quot; I may<br />

also observe that Saivaism of to-day, which I<br />

regard as the true<br />

modern representative of the historic religion of the Gita and<br />

the Mahabharata period, combines all these four paths and its<br />

great Saints Appar, Jnanasambandar, Sufldarar and Manikkava9agar<br />

are regarded as teachers of these four paths.<br />

More than all this, I wish to emphasize the fact that love is<br />

the essence of all real Religion, and real worship of God is the<br />

worship of God s creatures and loving them one and all without<br />

distinction of caste or creed, as observed by Sri Kantha, and<br />

unless this is fully recognized and practised, no real spiritual<br />

progress is possible.

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