from the senses or from the
heart.

The way of the _Bhakti yoga_, is the way of love and service, because
service to our fellow beings, is the inevitable complement of love. Where
we truly love, we gladly serve. It has been said: "The chela treads a
hair-line." That is to say, the initiate must be prepared to meet defeat at
every turn. Not defeat of his object of attainment, but the personal defeat
that so many seek in the delusion that the world's ideal of success is the
real success.

In conclusion we can only repeat what has been told and retold many times
by all inspired ones, of whatever creed and race; namely, think and act
always from the _inner Self_, cheerfully taking the consequences of your
choice. Let not the opinions of the illusory world of the senses balk and
thwart you. Let not the "worldly-wise" swerve you from your ideal and your
faith in the final goal of your earthly pilgrimage--the attainment of
spiritual consciousness _in your present personality_; this is the meaning
of immortality in the flesh Doubt not this.

Make love your ideal; your guide; your final goal; look for the inner Self
of all whom you meet. "Learn to look into the _hearts_ of men," says the
injunction in Light on the Path; dismiss from your mind all the
accumulation of traditional concepts and prejudices that are not grounded
in love, and above all _falter not_, nor doubt--no matter what seeming
hardships you encounter in your earthly pilgrimage; they are but the
Indian-clubs of your soul's gymnasium--Experience. "Meet with Triumph and
Disaster, and treat these _two impostors_ just the same."

Triumph and Disaster as seen with the eyes of sense-consciousness are both
illusions; but don't for this reason cease your work. The phrase "you must
work out your own salvation" is true. So also, you must be willing to do
your part in working out the salvation of the world; salvation means simply
the realization of the spiritual Being that you are--the attainment of that
state of Illumination which guarantees immortality.

Experience teaches one important lesson: Our sense-conscious life is filled
with symbolic language if we have the inner eye of discernment. An
unescapable truth is symbolized in our daily life by the evidence that we
get nothing for nothing. Everything has its price.

Immortality godhood, will not be handed to you on a silver salver; neither
can any one withhold it from you, if you desire it above all things. And,
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