OHAPTEE XIV
SELF-DEDICATION

I HAVE spoken in an earlier article of the
Purpose of Life, how in the course of many
lives the turning point comes when we each
have to ask ourselves what we are out
for, and I reminded you that the answer
has to be met and a reply given. From
that day our attitude changes, for one comes
face to face with oneself for a reason, and the
inner man demands, nay, insists on an answer.
It is a painful process, this day of reckoning, if
so it can be called; we would evade it at the
time if we could, but later, we are thankful to
have passed it and to be on the road to choose
the real from the unreal, and we ask to be lead
from death to immortality, from darkness to
light. But the uphill climbing only starts there.
We have come down, if so I can express it, very
many steps in different lives to touch the bed
rock of materialism and the steps are steep and
the climb will be stiff that will take us to the
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