ARISE FROM THE VALE OF MISERY
Misery has fallen to the lot of man, because of his wilful forgetfulness of the Supreme Truth of his being. He allows himself so much to be involved in the passing phases and affairs of life that he neglects to turn his thought to the Eternal Source of his existence. He struggles to find peace and contentment in the external adjustment and attainment of the things of life; but in no circumstance does he get the peace he strives for. On the other hand, he moves in an endless circle of ever-increasing cares and sorrows. In fact, he jumps from one fire into the other — from one pit into the other — from one sorrow into the other. He gropes in a self-created darkness and stumbles at every step, and his aches are many. Rest and peace are nowhere for him; this is the result of man’s running away from the all-blissful centre of his being — God. Forget this Centre, and you have a crop of misery. Tune your remembrance with the Lord and Master of your life, and you have endless joy. You have now...