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He did not speak to others of these thoughts thoughts which in later days came to be branded with the dreaded name of "heresy" but he held them none the less surely in the depths of his own spirit; and now, when all but he would have stood aside with pitiful helplessness, certain that nothing could be done for the dying man in absence of a priest, Raymond strove to lead his thoughts upwards, that though his life had been black and evil, he might still die with his face turned Godwards, with a cry for mercy on his lips.
These are part of the furniture of the orator, the statesman, and the prophet. Was there a private life at all, as distinguished from the inner side of that which was public? And was that private life genuine and tender and strong? Have we another window into this man's breast opening in this case, not upwards and Godwards, but towards the men or women around him?
"I don't know how he reconciled facts for your fact seems plain enough nor do I know how you can reconcile them; but what I do know is this: that man, poor in this world's goods, but rich in experience and in a natural endowment of poetic thought and musical ability, kept on making poems, kept on singing them, despite that fact to which he had given expression as he fared over the Brenner; despite the fact that a suit of cast-off clothes was all he got for his entertainment of those who would not call him 'brother. Discouraged at times for he was very human he kept on giving the best that was in him, doing the work appointed for him in this world and doing it with a whole heart Godwards and Christwards, despite his poverty, despite the broken promises of the great to reward him pecuniarily, despite the world, despite facts, Szchenetzy!
What if all be error If the halo irised round my head were, Love, thine arms? All the more, if this were so, must the speaker's heart turn Godwards in gratitude. The whole design of the volume with its theological parables and its beautiful lyrics of human love implies that there is a correspondency between the truths of religion and the truths of the passion of love between man and woman.
Worship is our response to God's reality, a reality which is, to be sure, within men, but which also is the radiant foundation of the entire universe. In trying to worship, we turn ourselves Godwards. We yearn for Him and endeavor to know His will. Our lives are pointed toward Him. If, and as we succeed, we make contact with God, and by this contact He is made real to us.
But with Vallabhâcârya it may be said that the vision which is generally directed godwards and forgets the flesh, turned earthwards and forgot God, for his teaching is that since the individual and the deity are one, the body should be reverenced and indulged. Pushṭi or well-being is the special grace of God and the elect are called Pushṭi-jîva.
Recognition of these several facts will lead us to a position similar to that of the early Friends, and point us to the same needs as regards what we must do if we would truly pray and worship, and, indeed, truly live. We too must endeavor to subdue the body-mind and turn the mind Godwards. We too must try to overcome the separated self and re-connect with our spiritual natures.
It was not by chance that His very last word was a prayer; for the currents within Him were all flowing Godwards. While prayer is appropriate for all times and seasons, there are occasions when it is singularly appropriate. At the close of the day, when we are about to enter into the state of sleep, which is an image of death, the most natural of all states of mind is surely prayer.
God's reality is felt in every fibre of the soul and brings convincement even to the body-mind. I would not give the impression that what I have described takes place in just this way every time, or that it happens without disruptions, lapses, roamings of the mind, day-dreams. Frequently I must recall myself, again still the mind and turn it Godwards, again practice waiting.
Then did she draw both my lord and the child to her, and pressed them against her, but her face she lifted Godwards. And something spoke within our hearts that we turned and left the window. HUMFREY LEMON, meeting Bered Turnip, before the "Red Deer," doth speak as follows: * Whom have we here? Well, well, by my troth! 'tis none other than Bered Turnip, the farrier, as I do live!
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