INTRODUCTION tion.
And because
the individual
self
self -observation raises
up
to the Universal Self,
therefore free action
from the Universal
is
that which flows
The
Self.
troversy whether man's will ject to
47
is
old con-
free or sub-
a universal law, to an tmalterable
problem wrongly stated.
necessity, is a
AU action is bound which is done by a man as an individual; all action free which
is
accomplished after his spiritual
re-birth.
Man, therefore, is not, in general,
He
either free or bound.
He
is
both the one
bound before his re-birth and he can become free through this re-birth. The individual upward
and the
other.
is
;
development
man
of
transformation
of
consists
unfree
willing
will possessing the character of
The man who has
in
the into
freedom.
realised the law-abid-
ingness of his action as his own, has
overcome the constraint
of
this
law-