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Sc 0 N) and therefore our nearest and dearest. He is nearer to ourselves than we hre to ourselves. Father, Mother, Friend, Husband of the soul are the terms usually applied by man to God, but they are done so in an alle gorical sense. God is not exactly our father, or our Motlier or our Friend ol Husband, but that He is the Soul of the soul is scientifically true. Though those terms i e Father, Mother Friend, Husbaud of tho soul iure allegorichl, they very aptly express our sweet relationship with God and we have every right to use them. Among these allegorical designa tions, the Hus band of the Soul is the l est. The soul resembleth a woman in its weak ness und helplessness and frallness and its tendency to depend upon a higher being and, like a creeper, to twine itself around the same. The best communion with God, however, is communion with him as the Soul of the soul, as the nearst and the dearest. 13. The next best communion with God is seeing God is all things and all things in God. Secing God in all things meanth seeing Him as holding together every thing and all tlıings, and seeing all thıngs in Ilin meanetlı seeing all things as held fast by Him. He is the support of the universe. In Him all things live, move and have their being. I4. As the laik ascondeth to the sky leaving the carth far behind, so the soul of the lover of God ascendeth to the heaven of His prescnce leaving the world far behind. As the lark in its flight findeth no cnd to the sky, so the soul of the lover of God findeth no end to the infinite heaven of God’s presence. When he is in this state, ho suddenly returneth to his own soul and feeleth therein the presence of the Sacred Inmate of the soul and is ravished with the sight. He is far, lie is near Ho is to be seen as scated in the heart. In short, always feel the prescnce, and then thou shalt be truly happy. Cherish the consciousness of the Presence in the soul with the utmost care us a woman doth the foetus in her womb. 15. He who seeth Him as seated in the soul, his is perpetual peace, it is of no other. He who seeth IIim as scated in the soul, his is perpetual felicity, it is of no other. The great God in whom the soul is scated is our object of wolship. 16. Peronnial communion with God is no bar to worldly business. As in the time of worldly business, the consciousness of the circumambiency of infinite space is always present, so in the time of worldly business, the consciousness of the circumambiency of God, who filleth all space with Ilis nectareous presence, can ever be plesent. বোধিনী পত্রিকা 17, Commuuion and Wolk can go hand ३० कन्न, १ No si A__ W in hand. As a female dancer, with a pitcher full of water on her head, singeth and danceth according to the difficult rules of music and dancing preventeth the water in the pitcher on her but head from being spilt, so the wise man doth not forget God, the. Giver of salvation, even when transacting worldly with to the minutest details. He is “his own heart’s home.” His heart is there always fixed in the waking state or in dreams. 18. Engaged in divine communion, perform works faithfully and attentively without business attention Д0д fondness for worldly objects and expectation of the fruits of your deeds. 19. mot to their fruits, that is, to their success. Fruits are in the hands of God. We should concentrate our whole love upon God. Love You have right only to works and is not concentrated upon God when it is directed to fruits of works. 20. Nature's beauty in solitary places is a great aid to livine communion. It is better to retire to sucli placos for days or months. Oh how canst thou renounce the boundless store of charms which nature affordoth thee as aids to divine communion, and hope to be forgiven We rise from nature up to nature’s God. When thou seest the picture, remember the painter. Can there be any royal pomp equal to that which decketh the sky at the time of sunset ! It is the pomp of the King of kings. Oh how glorious and beautiful is Nature | Both God and nnturo invite us lo joy in their company. Shall the calking cares of that contemptible thing, the world, prevent us from enjoying it? No, we should, on the contrary, plunge ourselves freely into that ocean of joy and take a hearty dive. 21. The God devoted man, if he lose sight of God even for a little while, suffereth pain, A lover of God, while in this condition, composed a song which, if translated, would run to the following effect : “Ah who slıııll bring Iliin back to me? What, necd lıave 1 of life when deprived of the Source of life I know all the pleasures of this life. I have no need of those pleasures and those riches. All I who shall bring Him back to me.” 22. Commune winhout ceasing. 23. Work without ceasing. 28, Stationed in communion, work. অশুদ্ধ শোধন | "( و به م م গতবারের পত্রিকাতে ব্ৰহ্মসঙ্গীতের স্বৰলিপি দেখ। “আজি” এই কথার "ঞ্জি” অক্ষরট যে "এ" সুরের নিম্নে বসিয়াছে, সেই “ঞ"স্বরের নিয়ে খাদম্বর বুঝাইবার জন্য হসন্ত (এ) বসিবে।