The Spirit Born People

These are the lecture notes for addresses I proposed to deliver to the Sikh youth of the Punjab. But as I am placed in the desert away from the towns where they gather, I let these go undelivered. And also because the Sikh youth are running in haste after shadows, turning their backs on the Sun of Suns, the Guru. This world of the Guru, the Beautiful, is different and their world how different; so to them the values of fiction and fact have been hopelessly interchanged. Still, I hope these addresses will reach them by and by. And the Sikh youth is everywhere, the youth that has the disciple-consciousness, aspiring to love, the Beautiful, which alone is truly good, truly noble, and truly divine. The form Beautiful appearing once rarely in ages, and fascinating the disciple-consciousness and vanishing in the eternal background of the spiritual inner Infinite, is the Guru Beautiful, the Bridegroom; the disciple-consciousness thenceforward restless without that presence or the sense of that presence is The Spirit Born People,—or The Brides.