The spiritual life

204 The Spiritual Life.

thetendencyto falseness,thereis developedin

you the increasing power to be true. Now

whatisTruth? TruthisBrahman: Truth is

life: Truth is the essenceofwhatwe callthe

Divine Life; and we reach it by struggling

against falsehood, developing, as it were, the

virtuewhichisthereceptacleoftheDivine Life,

and as youenlarge it and increase it byyour

struggling against falsehood-as the muscle

grows larger by practice against the weight-

youare making yourcharacter a receptaclefor

the Divine Life, that Divine Lifewhich shall

flowin inever-increasingvolume and giveyou

greaterpower. Thusyouaredevelopingthose

qualitiesofTruthwhichwithoutoppositionyou

could neverhave evolved, and which,in pro-

portion to the energies evolved byyourefforts

against falsehood,willpurify yournature from

falsity,and render true the lifewhich youare

developing. So also with every other virtue.

Courageisdevelopedinthepresence,notinthe

absence,ofanobject whichyoufear. If there

werenoobjectswhichgaverisetothesensation

of fear,then courage could never be evolved.

Butthepresence of these objects that givethe

sensation of fearincreasestheexperienceofthe

Soulandgraduallyevolvescourage. Haveyou

ever noticed in an infant, that that which at