The student should study nature and follow her example. The great smiling mother will give bountifully of her products, for she knows the future trials and needs of humanity and she prepares ahead that which will supply her children when drought or distress is to follow.
A few years ago she gave her abundance to the people of the United States but humanity, instead of storing the wheat and building warehouses for its keeping, ruthlessly destroyed her bounty. By government order mounds of grain were destroyed by the railway tracks, while there were hunger marchers in Washington. Millions of little pigs were killed and their flesh burned. Then came pestilence and drought, the wind blew away over fifty thousand acres of alluvial soil. Man had destroyed the abundance which nature, knowing the calamity to follow, had provided for him.
In the days of his prosperity and plenty man should not spend his abundance foolishly for pleasure, but should store away a portion of his income for the lean years. He should then be following a law of nature, for when he has abundance it generally foretells lean years to follow. If he provides for them he will not become a burden upon the thrifty members of society, for the years of plenty are Nature’s warning to him to warehouse her products, and she penalizes those who waste her gifts.
Experience teaches that eventually the surplus products of the soil are used up, for Mother Nature is mindful of the necessity of the human race. It is man who, in his greed, seeks to corner the markets of the world and upsets the balance.
In Chicago, when speculators forced the wheat market to a dollar a bushel, there was starvation in Italy. The world should seek to form lanes of distribution to meet the law of demand. London, for instance, through modern distribution, is provided with fresh fruit the year around. Within the keeping of nature is that Book of the Law of Conservation, which will eventually be revealed to man. Our religions and the teachings of the great avatars are but fragments of this forgotten truth, excerpts of nature’s secret doctrine which, if carried out, would bring freedom to the races of humanity. The fulfillment of nature’s command is realized when truth is recognized by the human understanding.
This book is a pronouncement of the law of nature, in which the higher self lives and moves and has its being. It will be given to the Yoga student when he arrives at the realization of Truth, which is justice, and the author has been promised that his book will be given to humanity in the way in which humanity can best receive it.
It is differences of opinion among the leaders of humanity which have brought about disorder and intolerance. Races differ, as individuals do, in their understanding of the law. When the steam engine was invented the ecclesiastical courts pronounced it the work of the devil. The Church persecuted the inventor of the telescope, and made the publication of the discovery of nature’s laws a risk of torture. It was not realized that all depends on the use we make of God’s benefits.
One of the advantages of the science of Yoga is that when one has attained to an expansion of consciousness, he also knows when his fellow man has attained it. There is no disputing the fact that the attainment of this consciousness advances the student into happiness, and the Knower’s realization of Truth.
Many people think that in the pursuit of Truth the Yogi is running away from life, but he is really running into it. He immerses himself into everything which is going on around him, until he becomes a part of it, without separation. He begins to learn what is going on in his own time and sees its effect upon the world. Lincoln warned of the evils of the present day, besides writing about the tendency of his own time. He was concerned for the individual liberty of the citizen.
In the West the little self-supporting communities no longer exist, and many people wonder whether folk were not happier formerly than they are now. Yet city congestion has necessitated hygiene, and through the advance of hygiene man has been able to prolong his life. Thus, by reason of congested living conditions, man has learned one of nature’s primary laws; that cleanliness next to godliness is a virtue which brings its own reward.
