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values. One idea has at least been missed -man is NOT perfect, is NOT the embodiment of God as he is at present; he has yet to become the embodiment of God, has yet to become the temple of God. A stone taken off the street has got within itself the potentiality of God - and therefore the worship of every stone in the street, prostrating before it if you can! Would it be an argument? If ever you have any fancy for worshipping idols in the temples-well I think there is a process of consecration or deification of a stone. And so also unless you can deify man you cannot worship him. And what is the process of deification of man? I consider we have missed our whole purpose in the religions when we have taken man at his worst and thought that he was God himself. We have yet to develop man as the embodiment of God. We must make it possible for every human individual to be divinised, to become an abode of God. And how this is possible by the service of man in the hospitals, the service of animals in the goshalas or in any of the pinjrapoles, or any other leper-asylums I do not know. Whom are we trying to sell, let me know. But that doesn't mean that I am harsh. I don't want you to be harsh, I want you to be kind.
Everybody must be taken on the higher way, and the force that can be given to every person or every bit of the universe is, to make it Divine. Have you achieved it by your process of serving, by your process of useless love, which keeps men as they are and perhaps degrades them by the humiliations that you inflict on them by serving them? I don't know how you would relish this phrase-the humiliation that you inflict on every individual by serving him, by keeping him down to the state to which he belongs rather than lifting his vision to the state to which he should aspire.
Now if you can take it in that way and in that measure, yoga is not for the weakling. Yoga is for divinisation of man; to make him more and more worthy of his great heritage and possibility, namely that he is, in fact, in the process of evolving into, of unfolding himself into, the Divine. And what is that process? What is that alchemical touch, which can transform man from the beast, he is, a man infirm in every sense of the term, impotent, against himself, and raise him to the level of a divine, peaceful, harmonious, integrated Mahatma. Not everybody becomes a mahatma by having one virtue. One must have all the virtues to be really called a mahatma. And that doesn't mean that I have a criticism to make against the series of names that