Now let us realize to ourselves how it is, that to know Him and become one with Him, we must love Him. Let us take our human relations. Is it by birth and caste, h2 and possessions, learning and knowledge, that one is brought nearer to another? Are not all these barriers dividing one from another? By all these means, one regards himself as raised above all other less favoured individuals. It is learning that puffeth up a man. The '1' ness and 'mine ness' become more and more developed in these men. So these means can never lead one nearer to another. Then what other means have we? It is love, love in all its gradations from pity upwards. This is the greatest Thing in the world, as Prof. Drummond truly said. It is the ideal of both theistic and atheistic systems of the world.

Love is the basis of all human society, the rock on which it is built. This will appear so from the mere heads of the chapters in in the sacred Kural. It is the one thing which binds man to man, the parent to the child, friend to friend and the woman to the husband. When this prevails, the distinctions created by birth, possessions, and learning, all cease. It is this which impels the servant to engage in his master's service, the mother to sacrifice herself to the child, the friend to give his life for his friend, the lover to forget himself in the loved. All the noblest acts of heroism, philanthropy, and martyrdom, arise from this one source. It is this love which as we have seen, gives rise to the other great fact in Being, namely, Sacrifice. Even naturalists have discovered the connexion of these two facts, Love and Sacrifice, even in the case of lower animals. And should not this law hold good in higher realm than the animal and social? And it is to lead to this end, we have all along been trying.