Powers were obscured,
and knowledge of the Self waned in those days. Rules in this era were generous and unbending. When commodities such as gold were brought as gifts to the monastery, one third was kept and used by the monks and two thirds returned to the givers in a new and more useful form. Thus the villages and the monastery flourished, and the internal and external government of the senior minority group within the monastery and its satguru governed fairly and with great compassion for all. Religion blossomed as a gentle yet dynamic way of life. God, the Supreme, was love to them, pure love. The Gods were wisdom givers, and their many devas were helpers on the path to final liberation, of merger into the great beyond of the beyond of the beyond forever and ever and ever. Aum.§