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660 TALKS ON u AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER " anything to which we are accustomed. To condemn th& people who live in that way is to make exactly the same mistake as was made in the French <r Revolution when they said that a philosopher or a writer was a man living an absolutely idle and useless life, that he ought to be breaking stones upon the road. That shows that they did not understand. Then He says: For if you yearn to be one with God, it is not for your own sake; it is that you may be a channel through which His love may flow to reach your fellow men. You see the whole idea of this book is to get yourself into a certain attitude. It is not so much to know as to be: that is, to live the Theosophical life; to be filled with love for all and with an intense desire to help evolution ; so that you are constantly watching, so that, in point of fact, you forget yourself in the service of others. A fnan ma^ do that and yet be in the most intense activity. If you ever saw a surgeon perform a great operation, then'you have seen how a man in the most intense activity, and with the keenest use of brain and hand, can yet be absolutely absorbed, not in himself, at all, but in the work he is doing. Often that happens in war too ; a man forgets himself utterly in the effort to save a wounded compatriot, or to perform a great deed of heroism, and so perhaps gains a Victoria