Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Let Us Keep

Let Us Keep
In the middle OF the kings highway and not
go to extremes. Let us not spend all OF our
life with our pocketbooks and savings
banks. They do not furnish adequate In
dices to our success. Our success Is our
character.
Let us know that the life is more than the
meat and let US live by that knowledge.
This means that the center OF conscious
ness shall be above the body. and that our
body shall be ruled by the consciousness
which is above 1t. on a higher plane
1t means that shall disentang.e our
selves from the body and shall be able to
know that We are dwelling In the body. but
are not OF the body; that the body Is our
tool and our dwelling place, but not our
master nor ourselves
II means that we shall have loftier pur-
poses than the gratincation Of bodily whims
and that these loftier purposes shall be
achieved by the subordination or the BODY
to these ends That the bodily life shall
be rendered automatic. running with ma
chine-like precision. never obtrudfng itself
on our attention. faithful servant attend
ing toSthe tasks which We have assigned 10
It, that may be relieved therefrom and
engage ourselves in the matters of more
serious moment
In Growing
Plants and horses scientific rules are fol-
lowed There is scientific feeding. scientific
X.
is scientific cultivation of the flower. Bur-
bank has been a wizard with the flower
beds One of the wonders is a fadeess
flower which lies fresh beneath its glass
cover without water for days. weeks. one
knows not how long. Il is by this scientific
living OF animal and plant that the marvel
ouslv beautiful horse is bred. the superla-
tivelv fine blossom is blown.
In time the scientific regime for men may
be evolved Ways may be unfolded for so
scientific regulation of our bodily habits
that they naturally Will acquire the beauty.
grace Vigor which makes for happiness and
accomplishment Prof. James says that the
ordinary routine of the day should become
automatic The bodily life should take care
OF itself and the will should be free to ex-
ercise on higher planes than the physical,
on matters OF greater moment. The physi-
cal body no longer should be end in it
self. 1t should be an instrument for attain
ing higher ends.
The Primitive
Animal is all stomach: its entire attention
must be devoted to its stomach, to the ac-
auiring OF food needed TO sustain life to
preserve its existence But men are be-
yond this The bodily needs should be sub
ordinate to mental. moral. esthetic spiritua al
needs. In order to do this the body should
be ordered systematically. Sleep. diet. work
and play can be regulated that they re-
Quire little IL any attention The Hindu
regime for the well-ordered career suggests
the lofty place the Hindus accord the life
that is higher than the physical existence
They divide the career into four parts.
The first part is the student life and en-
tails vow OF celibacy. The second part Il
the householder's life. This Is the family
life. with wife and children and active IN
terest In business and the world.
The third Is the life of retirement from
the world Some Indians. while still living
In the bosom of their families and citizens
OF the state. are In the world and yet no,
OF the world. They reinquish all hold OF
mundane matters. Their families OF
the patriarchal order; son succeeds father in
maintaining the family. so that the head
of the household is left free to exercise his
inclination for literature art, meditation
study. mental and spiritual Improvement.
After this stage of partial seclusion the
man completes his withdrawal. becomes a
hermit or recluse, and devotes all his days
to lofty thinking. The life wholly has beer
attuned to things not OF the world higher
than the world. purer than the world.
Granted
That mental energy Is higher than physiea
energy. and granted that moralities are
more momentous than physicalities. IL be-
longs to the well-ordered life that the nighsr