the limitations of either because, through understanding, he has freed himself from the limiting obsessions characteristic of sex-ridden imagination.
The completeness which the mind seeks is not attainable through attachment to other forms and their accession. Reconciliation of conscious and unconscious mind It is to be sought within by recapturing the lost unity of the mind. Reconciliation of the conscious and unconscious mind is possible not through sex-attraction or through other forms of possessiveness, but through non-identification with the body and its sex. Non-identification with the body removes the barrier which prevents the amalgamation and integration of the total experiences deposited in the psyche of the soul. Completeness within is to be sought by overcoming sex-duality and distinction which accentuates identification with the body.
To be free from attachment to the opposite sex is to be free from domination of sex of the body in which the soul has incarnated itself, thereby annihilating the majority of those sanskaras which compel the soul to identify itself with the body. Divine love The transcending of sex-duality does not itself amount to the overcoming of all duality, but it certainly goes a long way towards facilitating the complete transcendence of duality in all its forms. On the other hand, it is equally true that the problem of sex-duality is a part of the problem of duality as such. Its complete solution comes when the wider problem of all duality is solved through Divine Love in which there is neither “I” nor “you,” neither man nor woman. The purpose of male and female incarnations is the same as the purpose of evolution itself; it is to enable man to arrive at his own undivided and indivisible existence.

Part VI
THE OPERATION OF KARMA
THROUGH SUCCESSIVE LIVES

IN the successive incarnations of an individual soul, there is not only a thread of continuity and identity (manifested in personal memory and revived in the case of advanced souls), but there is also an uninterrupted reign of the law of cause and effect through the persistence and operation of Karma. Incarnations governed by law of Karma The successive incarnations with all their particulars are closely and unfailingly determined by rational law, so that it becomes possible for the individual soul to mould its future through wise and intelligent action. The actions of past lives determine the conditions and circumstances of the present life, and the actions of the present life have their share in determining the conditions and circumstances of future lives. Successive incarnations of the individual soul yield their full significance only in the light of the operation of the law of Karma.
The intermittent incarnations in the gross world are only apparently disconnected. Karma persists as a connecting link and determining factor through the mental body,