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October 7, 2025 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Light on the law cause an effect in human life.
How frequently people associate the word law with hardness and cruelty.
It seems to embody for them nothing but an inflexible tyranny.
This arises partly from their inability to perceive principles apart
from persons, and partly from the idea that the office

(00:22):
of law is solely to punish. Viewed from such an
attitude of mind, the term law is hazily regarded as
some sort of indefinite personality whose business it is to
hunt transgressors and crush them with overwhelming punishments. Now, while
law punishes, its primary office is to protect. Even the

(00:44):
laws which man makes are framed by him to protect
himself from his own baser passions. The law of our
country is instituted for the protection of life and property,
and it comes into operation as a punishing factor when
it is violated. Offenders against it probably think of it
as cruel and doubtless regard it with terror. But to

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them that obey it, it is an abiding protector and friend,
and can hold for them no terror. So with the
divine law, which is the stay of the universe, the
heart and life of the cosmos. It is that which
protects and upholds, and it is no less protective in
its penalties than in its peaceful blessings. It is indeed

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an eternal protection, which is never for one moment withheld,
and it shields all beings against themselves by bringing all
violations of itself, whether ignorant or wilful, through pain to nothingness.
Law cannot be partial. It is an unvarying mode of action,

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disobeying which we are hurt. Obeying we are made happy.
Neither protection nor supplication can alter it. For if it
could be altered or annulled, the universe would collapse and
chaos would prevail. It is not less kind that we
should suffer the penalty of our wrongdoing than we should
enjoy the blessedness of our right doing. If we could

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escape the effects of our ignorance and sin, all security
would be gone, and there would be no refuge, for
we could then be equally doubtful of the result of
our wisdom and goodness. Such a scheme would be one
of caprice and cruelty, whereas law is a method of
justice and kindness. Indeed, the supreme law is the principle

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of eternal kindness, faultless in its working and infinite in application.
It is none other than that eternal love, forever full,
forever flowing free, of which the Christian sings the boundless
compassion of Buddhistic precepts and poetry. The law which punishes
us is the law which preserves us. When in their

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ignorance men would destroy themselves, its everlasting arms are thrown
about them in loving, albeit sometimes painful protection. Every pain
we suffer brings us nearer to the knowledge of the
divine wisdom. Every blessing we enjoy speaks to us of
the perfection of the great Law, and of the fullness

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of bliss that shall be man's when he has come
to his heritage of divine knowledge. We progress by learning,
and we learn up to a certain point by suffering.
When the heart is mellowed by love, the law of
love is perceived in all its wonderful kindness. When wisdom
is acquired, peace is assured. We cannot alter the law

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of things, which is of sublime perfection, but we can
alter ourselves so as to comprehend more and more of
that perfection and make its grandeur. Ours. To wish to
bring down the perfect to the imperfect is the height
of fall. But to strive to bring the imperfect up
to the perfect is the height of wisdom. Seers of

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the cosmos do not mourn over the scheme of things.
They see the universe as a perfect whole, not an
imperfect jumble of parts. The great teachers are men and
women of abiding joy and heavenly peace. The blind, captive
of unholy desire may cry, ah, love, Could you and

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I with him conspire to grasp this sorry scheme of
things entire? Would we not shatter it to bits and
then remold it nearer to the heart's desire. This is
the wish of the carnal nature, the wish to enjoy
unlawful pleasures to any extent and not reap any painful consequences.

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It is such men who regard the universe as a
sorry scheme of things. They want the universe to bend
to their will and desire. Want lawlessness, not law. But
the wise man bends his will and subjects his desire
to the divine order, and he sees the universe as
the glorious perfection of an infinitude of parts. Buddha always

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referred to the mortal law of the universe as the
good law. And indeed it is not rightly perceived if
it is not thought of as anything but good, For
in it there can be no grain of evil, no
element of kindness. It is no iron hearted monster, crushing
the weak and destroying the ignorant, but a soothing love

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and brooding compassion, shielding the tenderest from harm and protecting
the strongest from a too destructive use of their strength.
It destroys all evil, it preserves all good. It infolds
the tiniest seedling in its care, and it destroys the
most colossal wrong. With a breath to perceive it is

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the beatific vision to know it is the beautific bliss.
And they who perceive in no oh are at peace.
They are glad for evermore. Such is the law which
moves the righteousness, which none at last can turn aside
or stay. The heart of it is love, the end
of it is peace and consummation. Sweet obey
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