This does
not mean that a Mahatma can or will ever neglect the laws of morality,
but that he, having unified his individual nature with Great Nature
herself, is constitutionally incapable of violating any one of the laws
of nature, and no man can constitute himself a judge of the conduct of
the Great one without knowing the laws of all the planes of Nature's
activity. (As honest men are honest without the least consideration of
the) criminal law, so a Mahatma is moral without reference to the laws
of morality.
These are, however, sublime topics: we shall before conclusion notice
some other considerations which lead the ordinary "pantheist" to the
true foundation of morality. Happiness has been defined by John Stuart
Mill as the state of absence of opposition. Manu gives the definition
in more forcible terms:
Sarvam paravasam duhkham
Sarva matmavasam sukham
Idam jnayo samasena
Lakshanam sukhaduhkhayo.
"Every kind of subjugation to another is pain, and subjugation to one's
self is happiness: in brief, this is to be known as the characteristic
marks of the two.
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