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confident the boy is born into life with the awakened
spirituality which will find its truest happiness and its
widest usefulness in such a career.
I have known priests who were absolutely happy
in their self-sacrifice, and who lived so in the spiritual
plane that the desires and ambitions of the ordinary
man did not reach them or appeal to them.
I recall a beautiful young priest of the Roman Catholic persuasion who had taken his vows from choice,
and who gloried in his life of poverty and chastity; and
I recall the greatest soul it was ever my privilege to
encounter, a Yogi from India, who had overcome the
objections of his high caste family by his persistent
clamor for a religious life, and who regarded his vows
as the greatest privilege a mortal could enjoy. Human
love and worldly riches and honors held nothing for
him he was always in a state of exaltation, always
enjoying a wealth which beggared the billionaires of
earth.
I heard foolish, sentimental and selfish women
sigh over his sacrifice of home ties and family, incapable of understanding the high altitude of the man. I
heard women say his life was unnatural. Yet to the
man it was the only natural life possible for him to
live. He had outlived the domestic existence in past
incarnations. He was born into earth for a religious
post-graduate course, and he left his work and his
example behind him when he passed on.
But what folly for any parent to attempt to thrust
such a career upon a son! Priests, and Yogis, and
great religious masters are born, not made to order.
The average human being needs the developing
experiences of mortal love, marriage and parenthood,
and they serve God's purposes through being good
husbands, and wives, and citizens.
