But perhaps the most significant paper is a lecture delivered in Washington D.C. in 1972 on Wisdom and Power. The wise ruler, Raja Rao argues, promises nothing at all, for he is ego less and his very presence bestows that happiness which is always already there for the wise. The Lord Krishna himself must guide the chariot of the warrior-king Arjuna. Love your neighbour as yourself makes everyone, everything, yourself You don't have to love. You love because you cannot do anything else.
Love has no geography.
Simple but difficult, yajna, of which, for Raja Rao, the Christian Cross is the supreme symbol - the sacrifice of the ego to the ego less Being within all, who alone bestows the freedom of the one and universal Self. Kathleen Raine is a poet and Blake scholar and founder of the Temenos Academy.