Devotion and the Spiritual
Life.
A Lecturedeliveredin 1895.
Thesoulcannotbegainedbyknowledge,norbyunderstanding,
norbymanifoldscience ,.. norbydevotion,norbyknow-ledge which is unwedded todevotion.—'"Mundakopanishad,"
iii.II.3,4.
^**'I'HAT,whichIsfromtheoldestScriptureof
ourrace, isreallythe motto on which I
amgoing to speak to you to-night,and I am
gomg to try to trace for you the famous two
pathsofthefindingoftheSelf-thepathswhich
maybe troddenseparately,but which for the
perfectionof Humanity mustfinallyblend mto
one. TheonepathisthePathof Knowledge,
andit leadstoLiberation; theotherpathisthe
Path of Devotion, and that, joined to right
knowledge, leads to that eternity of Servicewhichitisthegreatestgloryofmantoattain.
ButbeforeItake upthese twopaths,there
is justaword ortv/o to be said on a matter
whichmaycleartheway,inorderthatwemay
definitelyunderstand theroadsalongwhichwe
are to travel in thought to-night. Altogether