][t.][t.]i M[=a]rga, the Path of Forthgoing; the
second the Niv[r.][t.][t.]i M[=a]rga, the Path of Return. In the first,
the man evolves by taking; in the second, by giving. In the first, he
incurs debts; in the second, he pays them. In the first, he acquires; in
the second, he renounces. In the first, he lives for the profit of the
smaller self; in the second, for the service of the One Self. In the
first, he claims Rights; in the second, he discharges Duties.
Thus Morality is seen from two view-points, and the virtues it
comprises fall into two groups. Men are surrounded on every side by
objects of desire, and the use of these is to evoke the desire to
possess them, to stimulate exertion, to inspire efforts, and thus to
make faculty, capacity--strength, intelligence, alertness, judgment,
perseverance, patience, fortitude. Those who regard the world
as God-emanated and God-guided, must inevitably realise that the
relation of man--susceptible to pleasure and pain by contact with his
environment--to his environment--filled with pleasure and pain-giving
objects--must be intended to provoke in man the desire to possess the
pleasure-giving, to avoid the pain-giving. In fact, God's lures to
exertion are pleasures; His warnings are pains and the interplay between
man and environment causes evolution.
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