Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-19
MILLS ON IDEALS
OF BUSINESS LIFE
Noted Lecturer viii Speak to
Students of L. D. S.
College.
PHASE OF HINDU PHILOSOPHY
II IL the Subject OF Talk Before Audi
encc nc Unity
Hall.

Benjamin Fay Mills has been invited
by President Young of the Latter-day
Saints college to address the students
at the assembly tomorrow morning. Mr..
Mills has accepted the invitation and
will give his most popular address to
young people ON Mixing Religion and
Business" II is considered one of the
most inspiring utterance5 regarding
high ideals in business life. Tonight
Mr.. Mills subject at Barratt hall will
be Finding God in Foolish Men,.
Mr.. Mills spoke this afternoon at
Unity hall on What Makes the World
90 Round" The Hindus have a re-
markable explanation of all express
sions of life. he said which seems to
be universal in It's inclusivencss. This
is the argument: That there are three
gunas," or three qualities In every
atom, every thing, every animal and
every man.
The first IL Tamas or the quality of
inertia. manifesting itself In men as
Incidence, ignorance and general heed
lessness, sloth and sensuality. The Sec
ond Is Rajas, the passion nature, tho
urge and urge and urge" OF the world
and men, manifesting itself in activity,
ambition. sel1shness. greed, restless-
ness. anxiety, and general dissatisfac
ton.
perfect harmony, manifestng itself as
intuition. inspiration, purity, wisdom,
peace and permanent power.
Every mel has each of some OF these
qualities and they are mixed in varying
proportions: Now Sattva prevalent,
having overpowered Rajas and Tamas
now RaJas having overpowered Sattva
and Tamas and now Tamas, having
overpowered Sattva and Rajas'
A man In his knowiedRe NAV be
characterized as folows. Sattvic
knowledge Is ito see one changeless life
in all the lives, and In the separate,
One inseparable. Rajasic knowledge
is Illusion, that which sees the separat-
ed existences apart. and being separat-
ed, holds them real Tamasic knowl~
edge is delusion, that which blindly
clings TO one az II twere all, seeking no
cause, deprived of light, narrow and
dull and dark"
The lowest condition OF man Is Tama-
sic and might be described as swinish
indifference to the ideal. This man
does not care whether he Ia injured or
not. The next is rajasic, where the
man resents injury. Is full OF personal
ambition and eager activity and the
highest is the sattvic. where he reaches
sublime Indifference in the divine char
acter by which he consumes all sense
OF resentment in the flames of SYM
pathY and love.
The class greatly enjoyed the work.
ing out of these suggestions by taking
up an analysis of various qualities into
these three classified tipns and then took
up the characters of prominent men
for analysis. They concluded that
President Roosevelt was composed of
almost no taiiias. about so per cent RAJ
jas and 20 per cent sattva.
Edward Everett Hale was analyzed
Cy..t q
rajas. with no tamas. President Cleve-
land was a poser on whom the class
could not all agree. but probably ma
jority thought him about 20 per cent
tamas, 70 per cent raJas and 10 per
cent sattva. William j. Bryan was
considered about 30 per cent sattva, 65
per cent rajas and per cent tamas
The discussion was very lively To-
morrnw's topic will be 'The Free Soul
at the same place and hour.