against deliberate violence, which by means of persecutions and punishments sought to compel men to accept religious laws authorized by the rulers and conflicting with the truth. Such a hindrance and misrepresentation of the truth--which had not yet achieved complete clarity--occurred everywhere: in Confucianism and Taoism, in Buddhism and in Christianity, in Mohammedanism and in your Brahmanism. III _My hand has sowed love everywhere, giving unto all that will receive. Blessings are offered unto all My children, but many times in their blindness they fail to see them. How few there are who gather the gifts which lie in profusion at their feet: how many there are, who, in wilful waywardness, turn their eyes away from them and complain with a wail that they have not that which I have given them; many of them defiantly repudiate not only My gifts, but Me also, Me, the Source of all blessings and the Author of their being._ KRISHNA. _I tarry awhile from the turmoil and strife of the world. I will beautify and quicken thy life with love and with joy, for the light of the soul is Love. Where Love is, there is contentment and peace, and where there is contentment and peace, there am I, also, in their midst._ KRISHNA. _The aim of the sinless One consists in acting without causing sorrow to others, although he could attain to great power by ignoring their feelings._ _The aim of the sinless One lies in not doing evil unto those who have done evil unto him._ _If a man causes suffering even to those who hate him without any reason, he will ultimately have grief not to be overcome._ _The punishment of evil doers consists in making them feel ashamed of themselves by doing them a great kindness._ _Of what use is superior knowledge in the one, if he does not endeavour to relieve his neighbour's want as much as his own?_ _If, in the morning, a man wishes to do evil unto another, in the evening the evil will return to him._ THE HINDU KURAL.