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VIII. CONCLUSION But the automatic test of the purity and nobility of even that detachment is the dedication for an ideal, viz, service of God as embodied in the good of humanity. The yogin that the Gita regards as the ideal man is he "whose sins are wiped out, whose doubts are resolved, who has mastered himself and who is engrossed in the welfare of all beings" (V. 25). Judged by this supreme test the names I have mentioned were, if not yogins, on the sure path of Yoga. Whilst some of them were pure mystics of devotion, some were men and women of action who were also mystics. The Gita's unmistakable partiality for the man of action who is a mystic is to be seen in its repeated exhortation; "Be thou therefore a yogin" (VI. 46; VIII. 27 etc.); "Therefore at all times remember Me and fight on" (VIII. 7).