The living together of many persons in one family is called Samsara ( The Samsara is the coming and going, the cycle of birth, action, death, and rebirth: the world in which all live who have not, by knowledge of the self-Atmajnana, and the extinction of the will to separate life, attained liberation-Moksha. Brahman is the root of the eternal Asvattha(fig) tree, with roots above and branches below) who in performance of his family duties, justly makes all members of the family the object of an equal care, and of both affection for all, yet punishment is properly awarded to him who strays from right path and thinks the Kartta is partial. This is household morality in man’s small kingdom, the houses. This morality, when applied to kingdom, is called statesmanship. In short, whenever equality is to be kept among a number of people living in union, the King must, as all admit make provision both for the contentment and punishment of his subjects. Whether these understanding it or not, the King must, if he would preserve the kingdom, take hold of this rod of statesmanship which is both stern and sweet. What Indian is there who, living in this portion of the Empire which is under the sole sovereignty of the present Queen Empress (Rajarajeswari) will deny this? You and I are each the King of a small family Kingdom. It is of such combined kingdoms that the Empress of India is to-day Rajarajeswari. Again She is the Rajarajesvari of the three worlds(The Triloka-Bhuh, the upper world-Bhuvah and the underworlds-Patala, whose kingdom is the countless millions of vast worlds. She is the Queen without a second of the kingdom of the universe, and Sastras is the name of her universe-controlling and unfailing will. You and I have not the capacity to understand the principles which govern the profound statecraft of the universe. You and I are in this more insignificant than the most insignificant, illiterate, and ignorant people. Our sole capacity is to obey her commands. They alone understand the world-play( The world is the play of the Brahman. As the Sutra says, Lokavattulila Kaivalyam) of Brahmamayi, who, by the mercy of Mahavidya and the grace of Brahma-Vidya, have been able to make their way through the mass of dualistic darkness thick with illusion, and have come to this world with the duty cast upon us of advancing only along that path which is marked by their footprints. As the courtiers of a royal court are not the authors, but merely the interpreters, of statecraft, so the truth-seeing Rsis are not the originators of the Sadhana Sastra(Sadhana is the means employed to attain an end; in this case the ultimate aim of Being. The Tantra is pre-eminently a practical Sadhana Sastra), but its rememberencers merely. It is not a Sastra marred by mistakes, errors, and deception. Bhgavan, the creator of all creatures and knower of all hearts, is its revealer. He in whom mistakes are mistaken, in whom error is erroneous, and in whom deception is itself deceived. Bhagavati, the supporter of the world is its hearer. Narada and other Rsis learnt the truth(Sastra) from Brahma and other Devas. Vasistha, Visvamitra, Gautama, and other Gurus learnt in their turn from the latter. It is these alone who are the courtiers of the royal court of the Empire of the Universe. You and I, the subjects of this Empire of the universe, are merely the servants of that statecraft in the form of Sastra which has been promulgated by them. They have had the privilege of being near the person of the king, and have thus had an opportunity of observing with their own eyes the principles which, even in the smallest matters, govern His action. They have, with bowed heads, admitted the uttering truths of Sastra. To look, then, askance at these truths, to attempt airily, without reaching the greatness or acquiring the knowledge of the Rsis to set them aside is just as if one were to try to blow away the Himalayas- an act which is ridiculous enough to make the intelligence laugh, the mad man dance, and which is likely to bring a violent death to the foolish Non-Arya( The Hindus are properly called Arya, and their country Aryavarta).
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