THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
ram khalu dharma-sadhanam runs the old Sanskrit saying, the body too is our means for fulfilling the dharma, the God-ward law of our being. The mental, the emotional, the aesthetic parts of us have to be developed, is the ordinary view, so that they may have a greater satisfaction or because that is man’s finer nature, be-cause so he feels himself more alive and fulfilled. This, but not this only ; rather because these things too are the expressi-ons of the spirit, things which are seeking in him for their divine values and by their growth, subtlety, flexibility, power, inten-sity he is able to come nearer to the divine Reality in the world, to lay hold on it variously, to tune eventually his whole life into unity and conformity with it. Morality is in the ordinary view a well-regulated individual and social conduct which keeps society going and leads to-wards a better, a more rational, temper-ate, sympathetic, self-restrained dealing with our fellows. But ethics in the spiri-
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