Man's life in a particular personality reveals the spirit of the age to which he belongs. This manifold microcosmic nature of man gives rise to the complex of interactions between local and global, ephemeral and enduring cultures. He takes the whole universe for his province, regards the world as a city, considers humanity as his family. Each of them is great, since the small also is great. In heaven the sun is all the stars, and again each and all are the sun.
Rest is also perfect there, because no principle of agitation mingles with it.
We can attempt to mirror on earth that Divine Harmony or Rta and its action or Karma by reordering our social institutions in terms of Dharma, the Law of Duty, the Religion of Works, and Swaraj, the Rule of the One Self. This is a magnificent ideal, difficult to conceive, apparently impossible to achieve. Every person should endeavour to enter into inmost communion with the hero-souls of all lands and eras who still live, especially in their own immortal works. For it is the lover of himself, and not the lover of goodness, who thinks himself always superior to others. Plutarch wrote both the Lives and the Morals, the former setting forth to us, from an ideal point of view, what the ancient world had accomplished in the world of action, and the other, in like manner, what it had aimed at and accomplished in the world of thought.