They speak of the coming again of the Lord, of the appearance of an avatar in these days; that the need is piteous they know who realise the world’s sad condition.
That the avatar need not be on this material plane will be understood by those who believe that every pure heart, every aspiring soul, may touch the divine on the spirit-plane. For if God be the deepest self of man, then are man and God inseverable, and every heart that is purged of bitterness and strife and separation may become a cradle for the child divine.
In the purified heart, in the discipline which comes of suffering endured for the sake of truth, in the daily work offered in the service of love, we still may hear the music of the Lord, even as Arjuna did on the Kurufield in the long ago – we still may hear the child singing of the simple thing the cowherds heard in ancient Aryavarta. And that music still may prove to be the healing of an aching world. And listening to the simple things, the little door of our earth ears may yet open up in that wonderland where breathes the benediction of the beauty that is God.