Study Notes PARAGRAPH 22      In that case, the only reasonable explanation of such a paradoxical manifestation or creation is that it is a cosmic game, a Lila, a…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 21      But if, accepting this side of Nature, we say that all things are fixed in their statutory and stationary law of being, and man…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 19 (Continued) All this imperfection is to us evil, but all evil is in travail of the eternal good; for all is an imperfection which is the…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 18      As to suffering, which is so great a stumbling-block to our understanding of the universe, it is evidently a consequence of the limitation of…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 17      As with the cause,—the Ignorance,—so is it with the consequences of the Ignorance. All this that seems to us incapacity, weakness, impotence, limitation of…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 15      There is then no real division or limitation of being, no fundamental contradiction of the omnipresent Reality; but there does seem to be a…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 13      Once we admit a divine government of the universe, we must conclude that the power to govern is complete and absolute; for otherwise we…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 11      A second affirmation which our mind naturally accepts as the consequence of the first postulate, is that by the supreme consciousness and the supreme…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 10      But these conclusions are only first reasonings or primary intuitions founded on our inner self-experience and the apparent facts of universal existence. They cannot…

Study Notes PARAGRAPH 8      If the human consciousness were bound to the sense of imperfection and the acceptance of it as the law of our life and the…