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personal responsibility, and it also closes the door to all appeals to chance or accident. How many persons drift through life simply waiting for the breaks, for that breathless moment when his name will be called to fame and prosperity no more through merit than when a name is selected for a quiz program. If you approach life this way, says Hinduism, you misjudge your position pathetically. Breaks have nothing to do with protracted levels of happiness, and even so do not happen by chance. We live in a world in which there is no chance or accident; the words are simply covers for ignorance.
3. A middle world that will never in itself replace the supreme (the Trinity?) as destination for the human spirit.
maya, deceptively tricky in that it passes off its multiplicity, materiality and welter of dualities as ultimate whereas these are in fact provisional only. The trick lies in the way the world's materiality and multiplicity pass themselves off for being independently real apart from the state of mind from which they are seen. Reality in itself is actually undifferentiated Brahman throughout, as a rope lying in the dust remains a rope even while it is mistaken for a snake.
5. A training ground that can advance man toward the Highest.
lila, the play of the divine in its cosmic dance, untiring, unending, resistless but ultimately gentle, with a grace born of infinite vitality.
The beauty and truth of Hinduism's teachings were captured by Jesus and Ganid in their choice of quotations from the Hindu literature. (see 1447-1449)
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