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seek liberty, for the community gave ample scope for harmony without it.
Liberty comes in only when we wish to equalize ourselves with others or seek fraternity which we do not get from unequals. In any case, what we discover is that Nature has two faces, the face of strife and struggle for the elementary needs of life, and the other face, that looks forward to an era of peace and harmony. History informs us that when the face of strife and struggle was sought to be overcome by this ideal presented by the face of equality and fraternity, there arose what we call the period or age of nature and culture.
Culture itself has been an unceasing struggle to enthrone the values of equality and fraternity and freedom to arrive at the peaceful paradisiacal state. In other words, it is a continuous process of overcoming the forces of divisiveness with the power and force of the ideals of spirit like unity and cohesion which is the other face of Nature. This we know is the crux of Rajayoga and more particularly the Satyapad where the lower nature of man is sought to be governed by the higher nature of man. It is the wisdom gained by the ancient saints. This wisdom helped us to understand that the Higher Nature is a state of equilibrium, whereas the lower
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