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\nIntroduction<\/a>   Notes<\/a>   Book 1<\/a>   Book II<\/a>   Book III<\/a>   Book IV<\/a>   
\nBook V<\/a>   Book VI<\/a>   Book VII<\/a>   Book VIII<\/a>   
\nBook IX<\/a>   Book X<\/a>   Book XI<\/a>   Book XII<\/a>
\n<\/br><\/br><\/div>\n
\n
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Book One. The Book of Beginnings<\/p>\n

Canto I <\/a> Canto II<\/a> Canto III<\/a> Canto IV<\/a>
\nCanto V<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
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\n


\nBook One: Canto 3<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe Yoga of the King:
\nThe Yoga of the Soul’s Release<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Summary<\/B>
\n
Savitri’s birth in this world was in response to the aspiration
\nof the Earth voiced through Aswapathy leader of men and Lord of Life.
\nIt was he who embodied the call of humanity and succeeded in bringing
\ndown the Saviour Grace in the form of his daughter Savitri.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy himself was no
\nordinary mortal resigned to the pace and will of evolutionary Nature.
\nHe was a special being assigned with the specific task of preparing
\nstruggling humanity for the next step in Godward evolution. Outwardly
\nhe wore all the trappings of common humanity, but inwardly he was
\nconscious of his higher origin, his role and the powers that were
\npreparing in his being for their hour of manifestation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nHe turned his being to the
\ndemands of the Master of Evolution, set his movements in harmony with
\nthe workings of the higher cosmic Spirit and grew into a conscious
\nreceptacle of the mighty Forces of Supernature that descended into
\nhim. He widened his being to embrace the universe in his
\nconsciousness; he struck out upwards across the firmaments of the
\nmind and formed a bridge, as it were, between the physical universe
\nand the Divinity beyond. In him Earth and Heaven joined hands.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nHe saw great changes taking
\nplace in himself, greater faculties of knowledge, power, sensation
\nand bliss replacing the limited ones natural to mental man. All
\nbecame an open book to him\u00e2\u0080\u0094the life of the individuals around him
\nand the worlds above. To him stood revealed the roots of the cosmos
\nin the Superconscient, the fount of the divine Desire from which
\ncreation has sprouted as from a seed, the large lines of the Process
\nin which the manifestation is pursuing its destined course. He
\nexperienced in himself not only those intensities of the creative
\nLight, Power and Bliss but also the reactions and the pull backs
\ncaused by the still untransformed elements of inconscience, obscurity
\nand inertia in his physical parts. He pushed further carrying all of
\nhimself\u00e2\u0080\u0094leaving out no part however recalcitrant \u0080\u0094and arrived at a
\nfirm, immovable status in the Eternal Spirit. From this station above
\nthe eddies of Nature, he reached his help to the toiling world, help
\nthat was all the more effective because of his liberated condition
\nand the mastery he had acquired over the Powers and Energies of
\nGreater Nature. His illumined perception of the manifesting Truth of
\nthe Spirit and his will to promote and shape the evolutionary
\nmovement of the race in the mould of this vision stamped themselves
\nindelibly on the life and mind of men.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
World’s Desire<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nworld’\u0080\u0099s desire compelled her mortal birth. .<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe growth of the world in
\nevolution is a two-way process. It proceeds by an upward effort from
\nbelow and a downward descent from above. The aspiration from the
\nascending Soul on earth calls for a response from the Grace of the
\nDivine that oversees from the supreme heights of the Spirit. When
\nconditions on earth are ready for a next turn which cannot be
\neffected without an intervention from the Divine or when they are
\nhelplessly heading towards chaos as a result of some wrong deviation,
\na pull is exerted by the aspiring will in creation and a special
\nmanifestation of the Divine takes place in answer to it. The Avatar
\nappears.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nSuch an aspiration from
\nhumanity focussed through the will of King Aswapathy brought a
\nspecial puissance of the Divine Mother into human birth as Savitri.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Mysterious Play<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe mysterious play
In which the Unknown pursues himself through
\nforms
And limits his eternity by the hours
And the blind Void
\nstruggles to live and see, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis vast manifestation is
\nlike a Play whose plot is not yet fully revealed. The One from whom
\nall this has issued seeks to become conscious of himself in the
\ninnumerable Many which are really his own forms. Apparently they are
\nall different from each other but as they awake in consciousness they
\ncome to realise that each is the One and that it is the One in each
\nthat greets the One in the others. The One loses himself in the Many;
\nto find himself again through the Many is the Play. He is timeless,
\neternal, but for the purpose of the Play he enters into Time and
\npours out his manifestation into its terms. The Play is also the
\nscene where the Nescience into which the Spirit has condensed itself
\nis labouring to develop the rudiments of life-sensations, a
\nsentience, in order to breathe into life and become aware.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Colonist<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\ncolonist from immortality. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nKing Aswapathy had come to
\nbirth on earth with a special mission from the higher realms of the
\nSpirit: to prepare the conditions for a divine advent, to embody in
\nhimself the soul of evolving humanity and to de velop its aspiration
\nfor the Divine Life. He was conscious of the purpose for which he had
\nsojourned in this mortal Nature and strove to extend here the reign
\nof his native country of Infinity and Immortality.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIn a sense each man is a
\ncolonist here from the Kingdom of the Spirit. His original and
\npermanent home is there on the Divine summits; he has come to
\nestablish on earth the rule of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Symbol and Sign<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\npointing beam on earth’\u0080\u0099s uncertain roads,
His birth held up a
\nsymbol and a sign; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis world is a vast field
\nfor the working out of possibilities. No one can be certain of the
\ndirection that events may take the next moment. The mind feels lost
\nin the life-movement under these conditions and begins to wonder
\nwhether there is any meaning at all in living and if there be any,
\nwhat the right course could be to arrive at the goal. A highly
\nmissioned life acts as a pointer to a road among the many bewildering
\nby-paths of life. The purpose for which such a being strives, marks
\nthe objective in life for his fellowmen. He becomes a symbol of the
\naspiring soul in humanity reaching out to unscaled heights. The
\nsuperhuman energies which he pours into his effort indicate that a
\nPower greater than the human exists and can be called into overt
\naction here on earth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nSuch a birth was
\nAswapathy’s.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
All-Wise Leads<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe All-Wise who leads the unseeing world. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThings move in this world
\nblindly, as it were. Objects and forms that are inconscient,
\nunconscious, subconscient, half-sentient, half-conscious are all on
\nthe move in the march of Nature without any awareness of where they
\ngo and why. Even man, who has an awakened consciousness in him, is
\nhardly able to see beyond his immediate step. None sees either the
\npurpose or the direction. And yet there seems to be some order; all
\nproceeds according to some plan, leads to inevitable results. That is
\nbecause involved in all is a Divine Intelligence that orders this
\nexistence and impels all to the determined goal, prajn\u00c4\u0081netro lokah.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
God’s Debt<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…paying
\nhere God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s debt to earth and man <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Divine has launched the
\nEarth-life into evolution and the creatures of the Earth are in the
\nthroes of the evolutionary labour. There is an incessant pressure for
\ngrowth amidst the clash of the opposing forces of progression and
\narrestation. The world is in travail as a result of the Divine’s
\nWill. But the Divine does not remain all above the Movement he has
\noriginated. He is immanent in it in Spirit and participates in it in
\na deep way. Even overtly he takes human birth\u00e2\u0080\u0094either in embodiments
\nof his Consciousness or in concentrations of his Power\u00e2\u0080\u0094and
\nstruggles along with man and the rest on Earth in furtherance of the
\nobjective. He discharges, as it were, his obligation to his creatures
\nfor having involved them in the hard process of evolution.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Vasts Behind<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nstrength of the original Permanence
Entangled in the moment and
\nits flow,
He kept the vision of the Vasts behind:
A power was
\nin him from the Unknowable. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA special emanation of the
\nEternal that he was, Aswapathy never lost himself in the conditions
\nunder which he had to work. He was always conscious of the Infinite
\ngrounds of his being however much his immediate preoccupations were
\nconfined to the narrow and fleeting demands of the work-a-day life in
\nwhich he participated. A puissance of the Timeless Consciousness that
\ntranscends the terrestrial ranges was active in him. He was above the
\nworld even while he lived and acted in it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Mighty Memories<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nbore the stamp of mighty memories
And shed their grandiose ray on
\nhuman life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThough Aswapathy took a
\nhuman birth and was subject to the characteristic limitations of
\nhumanity on every side, his consciousness carried in itself strong
\nand living impressions of the greatnesses of the supernal worlds of
\nKnowledge, Power, Bliss that were his original Home. The brightness
\nof those memories did not remain concealed in his being; it cast its
\nlight wherever he went, on whatever he touched, in whatever he did.
\nHe brought the breath of a greater life to a humanity struggling in
\nits narrow bounds.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Long Growth<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\ndays were a long growth to the Supreme. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe lives of god-men
\nresemble the lives of common mortals only on the surface. Outwardly
\nthey may go through the same daily rounds as the others, but their
\nlife-content is different, the real course and the result of their
\nlives are different.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nLife as ordinarily lived
\nfollows a set pattern: apart from some incidental growth of the being
\nin the process, the general movement is towards decay and cessation.
\nAt every moment such a life spends itself without any conscious
\nreplenishment. Not so the lives of men like Aswapathy. They are
\ncontinuous movements of enlargement, self-heightening and growth, not
\nfor brief periods with subsequent reactions but over long stretches
\nof time. The growth of such men is not in extension of their own
\nimage but towards the Divine Heights that beckon. In the act of their
\nself-exceeding there is an automatic drawing of the energies that
\nsustain further effort.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Skyward Being<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nskyward being nourishing its roots
On sustenance from occult
\nspiritual founts
Climbed through white rays to meet an unseen
\nSun. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe gaze and direction of
\nAswapathy was upward, not downward; he was not engrossed in earthly
\ninterests but always looked and moved towards higher spheres of the
\nmental and the ideal heavens above. He did not live upon material
\nenergies, nor did he draw his motive-force from desire and ego in the
\nmanner of the common herd but lived mainly upon higher energies
\nflowing into him from the worlds of life and mind and acted on the
\nimpulsions of the awakened soul within. His path was truly a sunlit
\npath; the distant Sun of Truth and Knowledge for which he aspired and
\nto arrive at which he was ascending the heights of his being, lit up
\nhis path with its rays of impeccable lustre.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Eternity’s Delegate<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nsoul lived as eternity’\u0080\u0099s delegate,
His mind was like a fire
\nassailing heaven,
His will a hunter in the trails of light. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe entire being of
\nAswapathy was awake and exerting itself in the great effort. His soul
\nwas not lost in the usual entanglements of human desires and
\nattachments, covered under the folds of ignorance; it was fully
\nconscious of its true status\u00e2\u0080\u0094a projection of the Eternal Divine
\ntranscending Nature in ignorance\u00e2\u0080\u0094and it functioned as such. His
\nmind was not occupied with mundane objectives; it was a veritable
\nflame of aspiration for the truths of higher life and its soaring
\nthoughts constantly impinged upon the luminous realms of Knowledge
\nabove. His will too was not a slave of the blind impulses of life; it
\nwas a concentrated force of his being ever alert in search of the
\nLight of God and constantly on the move in its wake.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThus his being, his
\nconsciousness, his force were united in one single aim and effort.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Footprints of a God<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn
\nocean impulse lifted every breath;
Each action left the
\nfootprints of a God,
Each moment was a beat of puissant wings. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThough Aswapathy lived in a
\nhuman body his life was not of the human mould. He was in tune with
\nthe universal Life around and each outgoing movement of his was
\ncharged with the mighty force of the larger life. It was not stunted
\nby the limited energies of the individual frame. His actions were not
\nperformed with the puny strength of ordinary human effort. He was
\nopen to the inspirations and strengths of the Gods with whom he was
\nin contact\u00e2\u0080\u0094conscious or otherwise\u00e2\u0080\u0094and naturally in all that he
\ndid the impress of the higher source of action was patent. No time
\nwas allowed to be lost, wasted in weakness of will or exhaustion of
\nenergies. He embodied a Power that was not subject to human
\nlimitations of decay and decrease but was ever pouring in its
\nintensity, making every moment of his life a significant step in
\nexecution and progression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Infinite’s
\nPlayground<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nlittle plot of our mortality
Touched by this tenant from the
\nheights became
A playground of the living Infinite. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nCompared to the vasts of
\nthe Infinite where his native Home was, this earth, which Aswapathy
\ncame to inhabit for the time being, looked a small plot where
\nlimitation and death were the rule. And yet because he was conscious
\nof his high origin, embodied its characteristic powers in his being
\nand manifested something of that infinitude in his life; the scene
\nceased to wear any more the appearance of a prison house; it became a
\nfield for the play of unusual largenesses and intensities\u00e2\u0080\u0094a play in
\nwhich certain limitations of time and space were voluntarily
\n‘accepted as part of the game.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Form Deceives<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis
\nbodily appearance is not all;
The form deceives, the person is a
\nmask;
Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAppearances are only
\nsurfaces of things. The physical body is not the man. It is only an
\nexternal front, a form which conceals much that is not apparent.
\nBehind the physical exterior there are the formations of life-force,
\nmind-energy, soul-power and many others which are not evident on the
\ngross material surface. The simplicity of the outer form gives no
\nindication of the complexity within. The body may be nothing more
\nthan a mortal frame, the outer personality may be just human, but
\nwithin and behind there are powers\u00e2\u0080\u0094and their workings\u00e2\u0080\u0094which are
\nmore than human; at times they can even be of godlike dimensions.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Incognito<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nfragile ship conveys through the sea of years
An incognito of the
\nImperishable. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe career of man is truly
\nan adventure of God. His life is a long voyage across the aeons of
\nTime, collecting the precious fuel and cargo of experience en route
\nin the ship of his physical body, which is constantly wearing out and
\nexposed to the risks of damage, accident and disaster. And who is the
\noccupant of this moving ship? He is the Eternal himself under the
\nmask of mortal man, the divine Soul that journeys in human disguise.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
A Spirit Abides<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nspirit that is a flame of God abides,
A fiery portion of the
\nWonderful,
Artist of his own beauty and delight,
Immortal in
\nour mortal poverty. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMan is not wholly a
\ncreature of limitation, incapacity and ignorance, subject to decay
\nand death. Admidst all these features of his life there is something
\nin him that is above them, something that is unlimited in its being,
\ncapable of wielding inexhaustible power, source of all knowledge,
\nundying. It is the Spirit, the Divine that formulates itself as the
\nsoul, holds all together and leads the conglomerate life to a certain
\npreconceived destination. This soul is a spark of the One Fire of the
\nSpirit that is eternal and naturally it shares the spirit’s abiding
\npermanence, its Consciousness that transcends all the norms of
\nreason, its amazing Power that cannot be vanquished by any phenomenal
\nfactor, its innate Bliss which expresses itself continually in the
\nurge for Beauty and Love.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe soul is the centre and
\nsource of all that is Godlike and Godward in man.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Soul-Sculptor<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis
\nsculptor of the forms of the Infinite,
This screened unrecognised
\nInhabitant,
Initiate of his own veiled mysteries,
Hides in a
\nsmall dumb seed his cosmic thought. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhether in the universal or
\nin the individual creation as in man, the Intelligence that plans,
\nguides and builds is the Soul, the concealed divine Being. It
\nprepares and assumes forms that suit its objective in each
\nincarnation. Itself veiled behind its multiple operations and hardly
\never noticed by eyes that mistake results for causes, the Soul knows
\nprecisely the meaning and course of each life as it unrolls itself,
\nfor it has itself set the purpose and drawn the chart. The Soul holds
\nin its vision the Truth that is to be worked out, conceives it in
\nIdea, organises it in limitless Thought and compressing it in an
\ninfinitesimal, inarticulate form, casts it as a seed into the womb of
\nthe future.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Idea<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…the
\nmute strength of the occult Idea
Determining predestined shape
\nand act, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEach form in Creation is
\ngoverned by the Real-Idea which has impelled it into existence.
\nBehind every object in manifestation, every formation that comes into
\nbeing, there is a truth which demands fulfilment in and through it.
\nIt is a truth from the Being of the Divine that seeks expression.
\nEach truth that so urges to manifest forms itself into a source-Idea,
\na concentration of the perception and the power to effectuate it.
\nThis Idea is always there in the depths of every manifestation ruling
\nits forms and its movements according to its Will in execution. All
\nformations and activities proceed according to the law of this
\nindwelling Truth-Idea.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Coming God<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nregards the icon growing by his gaze
And in the worm foresees the
\ncoming god. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe divine Inhabitant in
\nthe evolving form keeps the concentrated force of the seed-perception
\nfocussed on the progression of the entity projected into Nature, and
\nthis very regard directs the development along the intended lines,
\nspeeds up its growth into an individuated personality. Even when the
\nentity that is the subject of the developing movement is inchoate,
\ninsignificant, the presiding Agent knows that it is only a beginning
\nof a course that will surely culminate into a glorious efflorescence
\nof the divine Person.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Stretch into the
\nInfinite<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nbeam of the Eternal smites his heart,
His thought stretches into
\ninfinitude:
All in him turns to spirit vastnesses. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs man develops his inner
\nlife and arrives at a stage when his mind, heart and the rest of his
\nconscious being are united in the central aspiration and endeavour to
\noutgrow the limitations of lower nature and break into the freedom of
\nthe Higher Consciousness, he finds that his own strength and effort
\nare not adequate to effect the release. A helping hand from above, a
\nreaching out of the Grace is indispensable. When this takes place in
\nresponse to the ardent call from man, when a Ray of the Divine
\nConsciousness, the Supreme Light, comes down and touches his being,
\nthere is a sudden change: the dour doors of obstinate nature fall
\nopen and all in him, his mentality held within its conceptual walls,
\nhis vitality confined to its psycho-physical frame, everything
\nlimited and constricted opens out into the immensities of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Soul Joins Oversoul<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nsoul breaks out to join the Oversoul,
His life is oceaned by that
\nsuperlife. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhen at the touch of the
\nsupreme Grace the triple knot that binds the being of man to the post
\nof the lower nature of body, life and mind in Ignorance is snapped,
\nhis soul soars out of its long confinement in the cage of division
\nand unites with the larger Soul of the Universe. The individual and
\nthe Universal become one, for in truth they are both different terms
\nof the same Divine Reality. The identity that had been lost as a
\nresult of separativity and self-forgetfulness on the part of the
\nindividual is recovered. His life no more remains the little segment
\nthat it was, confined to the bounds of his ego. The cosmic Life flows
\ninto him and his expanse embraces the universe.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Supernature<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\ntopless supernature fills his frame: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhen man exceeds the
\nformulations of the Nature in him by psychological and spiritual
\ngrowth, the barriers to his development upwards into the Spirit break
\ndown. Bounded Nature of Ignorance yields to a higher Nature of
\ninfinite Knowledge, Strength and joy which assumes the evolving being
\ninto itself. This Nature beyond the domain of Ignorance and
\nlimitation is infinite as it is the Self-Power of the Divine; there
\nis no limit to its progression from knowledge to greater knowledge,
\nfrom light to greater light, from bliss to greater bliss.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Overt Divine<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHer
\nface is seen through his face, her eyes through his eyes;
Her
\nbeing is his through a vast identity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThen
\nis revealed in man the overt Divine. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnce the being of man in
\nthe course of its spiritual progression and enlargement exceeds its
\nhuman bounds and passes into the freer altitudes of the higher
\nConsciousness, the Creatrix of the worlds no more needs to act from
\nbehind the veil in terms of his limitation. She acts freely in and
\nthrough his wide-opened faculties; his actions and movements bear the
\nstamp of this greater Puissance with whom he has attained identity in
\nnature. He is no more a limiting instrument, not even a faithful
\nchannel. He becomes the very universal Power in embodiment, the
\nDivine openly in action in a human frame.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Integral Godhead<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nstatic Oneness and dynamic Power
Descend in him, the integral
\nGodhead\u00e2\u0080\u0099s seals;
His soul and body take that splendid stamp. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt is possible to conceive
\nand realise the Divine as the static One\u00e2\u0080\u0094the Reality that is ever
\none, above all movement, beyond manifestation. It is also possible to
\nperceive and realise the Divine as a Power ever in action,
\nmanifesting worlds after worlds. But either of these is only a
\npartial truth of the total Reality which contains both as its
\naspects. Both are true, they are different poises of the same Divine
\nReality. They are simultaneous states, characteristics, one basing
\nthe other, the other drawing from that one. The static holds the
\ntruth to be expressed and the concentrated power for that purpose;
\nthe dynamic draws that force into action and works out the
\nmanifestation of the truth. In him who is ready to receive and
\nexpress this integral truth, the Divine descends in both these
\nstatuses and embodies them in his person\u00e2\u0080\u0094the self functioning as
\nthe static base and the body manifesting the dynamic power.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Man’s Life (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nlong dim preparation is man’s life, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis life of man is neither
\nhis first nor his last. Behind his present innings there have been
\nmany before which have led up to this, even as there will be many
\nmore to follow on the close of the present. Each life of man is a
\npreparation for the distant but eventual transmutation of his
\nhumanity into divinity.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nLife after life man gathers
\nexperience, develops his personality, equips himself for that
\nglorious end. He may not be, and usually is not, aware how his
\nstruggles, his joys and griefs, his chequered advances and violent
\nthrow-backs contribute to the needed preparation; but the
\nIntelligence that presides over his career knows and directs.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Man’s Life (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\ncircle of toil and hope and war and peace
Tracked out by Life on
\nMatter’\u0080\u0099s obscure ground
In his climb to a peak no feet have
\never trod, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA long winding ascent to
\nthe heights of the Spirit that remain inaccessible is the effort of
\nman. The terrain of Matter is hard and rugged, but the life-force
\nthat insists on the adventure forces the way, forms the route across
\nall the inhospitable cliffs of danger, disaster and death. The path
\nis one of continual alternations of struggle and ease, disappointment
\nand achievement, friction with other formations of life and concord,
\nconfrontation with obstructions from forces of Nature and assistances
\nfrom friendly powers.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Man’s Life (III)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nseeks through a penumbra shot with flame
A veiled reality
\nhalf-known, ever missed, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Reality that man seeks
\nto arrive at and know through his mental reason always escapes his
\ngrasp. For the reason that guides his intelligence is at best a
\nhalf-light. It is no doubt a faculty for knowing but it can know only
\nin segments, in bits. And what it so knows becomes a misleading
\npartial seeing unable to break through the veil of conceptual Maya
\nthat covers the Face of the Truth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Man’s Life (IV)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nsearch for something or someone never found,
Cult of an ideal
\nnever made real here, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mind or the religious
\nimagination of man conceives of the Reality as some Indeterminate
\nTruth or as God and proceeds to erect a system of beliefs and
\npractices in order to push towards that supreme goal. But the effort
\nfails and the Ideal remains unrealised because both the perceptions
\nand the constructions of the human mind are clouded by an Ignorance
\nthat at once blinds and lames.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Man’s Life (V)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn
\nendless spiral of ascent and fall <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLife is a series of
\nsuccesses and defeats, advances and retreats, gains and losses. They
\nalternate with an almost mechanical consistency and the wheel of life
\nturns round and round repeating the same movement. This, however, is
\nonly an appearance. For even while turning round and repeating the
\nturn in another round, the wheel does move forward in the spiral of
\nevolution. Amidst all the repetitive happenings in which the same
\nmovements seem to take place with the same alternations, the
\nexperiencing consciousness, the soul, grows in stature and range.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Man’s Life (VI)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nat last is reached the giant point
Through which his Glory shines
\nfor whom we were made
And we break into the infinity of God. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt is after a long course
\nof development, assimilation after assimilation of life-experiences,
\nthat man arrives at a culminating stage which marks his transition
\nfrom the conditions of bounded human nature to the boundless state of
\nthe Divine Being. The greatnesses of the higher Existence begin to
\nmanifest and assume his nature into their being; all the limitations
\nof the lower nature get erased and man partakes of the infinitude of
\nthe Divine. It is then, as a centre of the Infinity, that he realises
\nthe purpose of his life and evolution: he is intended to manifest the
\nGlory of the Divine in all its amplitude. All life, from its small
\nbeginnings to its ultimate fulfilment, is directed to this end.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Supernature<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAcross
\nour nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s border line we escape
Into supernature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s arc of
\nliving light. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe nature with which the
\nhuman soul is saddled is one of limitations. It moves in the twilight
\nof Ignorance, shades of error and imperfect vision. By psychological
\nand spiritual effort it is possible to outgrow this primal nature and
\nto pass into another nature that is above and free, the divine nature
\nthat transcends the human nature. In the domain of this super-nature
\nthere is no darkness, no shade; all is light\u00e2\u0080\u0094light that illumines
\nwhatever comes within its range. Only a part of it gets revealed
\ninitially to the ascending consciousness of man; the farther reaches
\nof this englobing lustre await a fuller development of the being in
\nthe new status.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Art of the Immanent<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOriginal
\nand supernal Immanence
Of which all Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s process is the
\nart, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe activities of Nature
\nthat seem so bewildering and wasteful at first sight, are not
\nhaphazard movements of any blind and mechanical Force or forces. They
\nreveal themselves, on a closer scrutiny, to be well regulated
\nprocesses of an action that moves to a definite end. And that is
\npossible because this Nature is informed, instinct with an
\nIntelligence, a divine Spirit that is present behind the veil of the
\nmaterial exterior. This Spirit is immanent everywhere and all is a
\nresult of its working; even the apparently disorderly and
\nunintelligible activities in Nature are steps in the working out of a
\nPlan by this concealed Consciousness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Turn to Heaven-Use<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ncosmic Worker set his secret hand
To turn this frail mud-engine
\nto heaven-use. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy was chosen by the
\nDivine Spirit at work in the universe for the high purpose of
\nembodying the aspiration of Earth-Nature for a divine life. His
\nmaterial frame energised by a limited life-force was indeed fragile
\nin the manner of all mortal bodies. But the divine Planner set out to
\nharness it to his purpose and proceeded to build the being of the
\nKing from within into a growing shape of the perfection indispensable
\nfor the task.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
It Beat his Soil<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt
\nbeat his soil to bear a Titan\u00e2\u0080\u0099s weight, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe being of man, as it is,
\nis unable to bear the charge of higher voltages of consciousness than
\nwhat it is accustomed to in the human range. Impacts greater than
\nthese are apt to unbalance, if not to break the system. The Divine
\nWorker prepared the being and nature of Aswapathy to withstand higher
\nand still higher pressures so that they would not be found wanting
\nwhen the Divine’s powers started manifesting in him for the great
\nwork he was destined to shoulder. It was a process of strengthening,
\nfortifying and raising the capacity of his being till his soul
\nbecame, as it were, a very God in a form, firm and inflexible,
\ncapable of bearing any impact, any load.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Modelled Rhythmic
\nParts<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nModelled
\nin inward Time his rhythmic parts. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOutwardly the appearance of
\nthe King may not have shown any perceptible change. But within a
\nmighty change was being effected. The various parts of the being,
\nwhich in man are normally wanting in harmony with each other, were
\nset into a rhythmic working, related to each other in their movements
\nand shaped into a harmonic whole. He was built from within into an
\nintegrated being.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Transcendent Miracle<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe abrupt transcendent miracle: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA miracle is always the
\nresult of an intervention of some element that transcends the
\nexisting scheme of things and its laws. It is abrupt too. There comes
\na sudden precipitation of a process, a working that is proper to
\nanother scheme of organisation, into this world of ours governed by
\nits own laws. And it is because the happening is contrary to the
\noperations natural to this plane of existence that it is called a
\nmiracle.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThis is precisely what
\nhappened in the case of Aswapathy. Something super-human, divine,
\ncame into the human frame of the king and he ceased to be merely
\nhuman. Both the human and the divine\u00e2\u0080\u0094normally distinct and
\ndifferent in structure and functioning\u00e2\u0080\u0094joined together.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
A Gap was Rent<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFor
\nhim mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s limiting firmament ceased above,
In the griffin
\nforefront of the Night and Day
A gap was rent in the
\nall-concealing vault; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mind acts as a barrier
\nto the uplooking intelligence of man. His consciousness is imprisoned
\nin the nets of the reasoning and conceptual mind which effectively
\nblock the blossoming of other liberative faculties. This bar no more
\nheld back the upward growth of Aswapathy. An opening was effected in
\nthis obstructive lid which had prevented what was beyond the mind
\nfrom coming down and what was aspiring from below from soaring above,
\nmaking it possible for his multiple consciousness\u00e2\u0080\u0094whether in its
\nluminous moments or obscure\u00e2\u0080\u0094to expand continuously.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Island Ego and
\nContinent<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nlandmarks of the little person fell,
The island ego joined its
\ncontinent: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe natural limits of
\nAswapathy, the human person, got erased. The little, self-divided and
\nself-centred ego-personality, usual to man, dissolved and he became
\none with the Divine Being. All bounds\u00e2\u0080\u0094mental, vital,
\nsubtle-physical\u00e2\u0080\u0094had been acted upon and increasingly stretched by
\nthe Power at work till they gave way and all divisions ceased. The
\nconsciousness formally confined to human boundaries flowed out and
\njoined the larger divine consciousness, of which it is in truth a
\nsegment.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Soul’s Treaty with
\nNature<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAbolished
\nwere conception’\u0080\u0099s covenants
And, striking off subjection’\u0080\u0099s
\nrigorous clause
Annulled the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s treaty with Nature’\u0080\u0099s
\nnescience. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWith this breaking of
\nbounds, the age-old balance between Matter and Spirit, nature and
\nsoul that had governed the life movements of Aswapathy was
\noverthrown. Till then the inconscience in physical nature was a
\nparty\u00e2\u0080\u0094an insistent one\u00e2\u0080\u0094to the venture of life and the soul was
\nsubject to its rule; the mind too had the right to impose its
\nconceptual moulds on all awakenings to knowledge. But now these
\nbecame matters of the past and neither the nescience of the physical
\nnor the confused reasonings and conceivings of the mind could arrest
\nthe flight of the soul.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Truth Unpartitioned<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTruth
\nunpartitioned found immense sky-room; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe intellect always seizes
\ntruth in parts. It divides what is whole into segments, studies them
\npiece by piece and seeks to erect a knowledge by re-joining them
\nvariously. It is only when this fragmenting faculty of the mind is
\ndiscarded or outgrown that truth can be received and understood in
\nits entirety. This is what took place in Aswapathy. With the breaking
\nof the lid of the intellect, truth was no more subjected to division,
\nit had no more to confine itself to the narrow mould of the
\nconceptual mind; it could spread itself in its natural wholeness in
\nhis consciousness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Boundless Light<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nbounded mind became a boundless light,
The finite self mated with
\nInfinity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mind was flooded with
\nthe light of Knowledge that came pouring down with the removal of its
\nobstructing faculty of segmentation. The habitual limitations of the
\nmind ceased to exist and the mental consciousness became one with the
\nluminous Knowledge that came. So too, the self of Aswapathy, involved
\nhitherto in ignorant nature and its limiting instruments, was freed
\nfrom its bondage and it found its identity with the Infinite. His
\nbeing in finite form could now freely join the Infinite in the play
\nof their common cosmic game.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Ignorance to Wisdom<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOut
\nof apprenticeship to Ignorance
Wisdom upraised him to her master
\ncraft <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe long stage of evolution
\nthat follows the awakening from the sleep of Inconscience is
\ncharacterised by Ignorance. But it is not a period of waste. It is a
\nstage of development in which all the faculties of man are
\ndeliberately fashioned by Nature to absorb more and more of
\nconsciousness, to move steadily from half-light to more of light till
\nthey are ready to emerge into the belt of Knowledge. Ignorance itself
\nis a power seeking for Knowledge and it is a halfway house, a
\ntransitional state in which man learns and finally awakens to the
\nlight of unclouded wisdom.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy has outgrown this
\ntutelage of Ignorance and has been lifted up into the masteries of
\nKnowledge.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Arch-Mason of the
\nSoul<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAnd
\nmade him an arch-mason of the soul,
A builder of the Immortal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\nsecret house, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe knowledge that claimed
\nAswapathy admitted him into the secrecies of the soul where the inner
\nedifice of the Divine dwelling in man is being shaped. For it is the
\nsoul that builds the destiny for the Divine in the human frame,
\ndrawing material from life-experience. Aswapathy grew into identity
\nwith this deeper soul and attained its creative power.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Freedom and Empire<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFreedom
\nand empire called to him from on high; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs his limitations were
\nbeing shed, Aswapathy was spontaneously drawn to the higher altitudes
\nof his being where there were no bounds to his consciousness, where
\nhe was free, master of himself, svarat. There he was also master of
\nnature and of all to which he turned his liberated power of
\nconsciousness, samrrat.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Spiritual Day<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAbove
\nmind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s twilight and life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s star-led night
There gleamed the
\ndawn of a spiritual day. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe dark belt of life, in
\nwhich there is practically no light of consciousness except the faint
\nglimmer of the awakenings to self-awareness on the horizon, had been
\ncrossed; the half-lit passage of mental consciousness also had been
\ntraversed. Now Aswapathy was face to face with the dawn of the Day of
\nSpiritual Consciousness. The reign of the Spirit had begun after the
\npreparatory stages of life and mind through which the consciousness
\nhad gradually awakened and formed itself.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe semi-consciousness of
\nlife is followed by the still incomplete consciousness of the mind
\nwhich in its turn is succeeded by the birth of the plenary
\nconsciousness of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
A Greater Being<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHumanity
\nframed his movements less and less,
A greater being saw a greater
\nworld. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs one overpasses the reign
\nof the mind and emerges out of the bounds of Ignorance into the
\nvaster regions of the spiritual consciousness, human nature,
\naccustomed to function within the limits imposed by the incapacities
\nthat are constitutional to it, ceases to govern one’s life. A higher
\nnature takes its place and serves the higher and larger being that
\nhas displaced the dwindling ego-self; a greater vision forms and the
\nperspective becomes greater.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Bar of Reason<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nlines of safety reason draws that bar
Mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s soar, soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\ndive into the Infinite. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe reasoning faculty,
\nwhatever its value in organising and ordering the mass of perceptions
\nand thinkings that float about in the mind region, becomes a bar to
\nthe fuller development of the mind by imposing its narrow tests and
\nstandards on all its activities, even those that are beyond its
\nreach, It acts as a brake on the freer movement of the mind into the
\nregions of ideation, intuition, etc. So also it interferes with the
\nspontaneous movements of the deeper soul which ever seeks an identity
\nwith the Infinite of which it is born. The hesitations and doubtings
\nof the reasoning mind, its narrow lines of functioning, impede the
\nnatural flowings of the soul Godward.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Slumbering Powers<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLeft
\nslumbering in a sealed and secret cave
The powers that sleep
\nunused in man within. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMan is conscious of only a
\nsmall part of his being. The faculties and powers that are active in
\nhim are only a selection that suffices for the limited range of his
\nnormal living. There lie in him larger areas of consciousness still
\nto be opened up, vaster powers waiting to be tapped. As man
\ndevelops\u00e2\u0080\u0094in the course of nature or by means of concentrated
\neffort\u00e2\u0080\u0094these powers which lie latent in regions that are veiled to
\nhis surface awareness, get activised and come to life.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Pure Perception (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ngifts of the spirit .<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nA
\npure perception lent its lucent joy:
Its intimate vision waited
\nnot to think;
It enveloped all Nature in a single glance,
It
\nlooked into the very self of things;
Deceived no more by form he
\nsaw the soul. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the new status of
\nconsciousness he had attained, Aswapathy did not have to grasp things
\nthrough the usual mechanism of the senses, presided over and
\ncoordinated by mental thought, that serves man normally. A power of
\nimmediate perception became active in him, lighting up all that came
\nwithin his purview with a spontaneous ease and directness, without
\nthe labour of thinking; it took in comprehensively and not piecemeal,
\nit went straight to the heart of things and was not deflected or
\nmisled by appearances as the ordinary perception is liable to be.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Pure Perception (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nbeings it knew what lurked to them unknown;
It seized the idea in
\nmind, the wish in the heart;
It plucked out from grey folds of
\nsecrecy
The motives which from their own sight men hide. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis faculty of perception
\nnow awakened in Aswapathy was like a piercing searchlight that lost
\nsight of nothing, exposed even what lay concealed in men, unknown to
\ntheir waking parts. For in men there are movements, motives, of which
\nthey are not conscious but which yet are the secret spring of their
\nactions. This sight perceived the idea in their minds even before it
\ntook thought-form, the wish in their heart before it formulated
\nitself in their thinking. Usually man becomes conscious of motives
\nonly when they present themselves as thoughts; but these motives
\nprepare the being long before they come to the surface of the mind.
\nThough in many, motives are not wholly unconscious, the cunning of
\nthe vital effectively conceals them from the scrutiny of the active
\nsense of mental judgment. But they could not escape the eye of
\nAswapathy.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Oneness (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nfelt the beating life in other men
Invade him with their
\nhappiness and their grief;
Their love, their anger, their
\nunspoken hopes
Entered in currents or in pouring waves
Into
\nthe immobile ocean of his calm. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWith the shedding of the
\nego-sense of separativity and the growth of his being beyond the
\nbounds of mentality, Aswapathy’s consciousness extended itself wider
\nand wider till it embraced the consciousness of all. One with them in
\nhis consciousness, he experienced the flow of their
\nenergies\u00e2\u0080\u0094emotional, vital and subtle-physical\u00e2\u0080\u0094in his own being;
\ntheir hopes\u00e2\u0080\u0094articulate and inarticulate,\u00e2\u0080\u0094their passions and their
\nloves; their sorrows and their joys seeped in or came like waves upon
\nwaves into the still and limitless ocean of his extended being. All
\nthis, however, did not affect or perturb him whose consciousness had
\nattained the imperturbable calm natural to his status. He neither
\nsuffered nor rejoiced at these impacts.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Oneness (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nheard the inspired sound of his own thoughts
Re-echoed in the
\nvault of other minds;
The world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s thought-streams travelled
\ninto his ken; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOn the mental level too he
\nwas one with all. His thought-forces flowed freely into their minds
\nand shaped their thinkings, so much so that when he became aware of
\nthe thoughts of others, he found them to be echoes of his own. There
\nwas also an unobstructed flow of thoughts from elsewhere\u00e2\u0080\u0094from the
\nminds of men as also from the general atmosphere\u00e2\u0080\u0094into his
\nawareness. He could always thus sense the thought currents in the
\nworld and influence and turn them in the direction of his choice.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Oneness (III)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\ninner self grew near to others\u00e2\u0080\u0099 selves
And bore a kinship\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\nweight, a common tie,
Yet stood untouched, king of itself, alone.
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy felt attuned to
\nothers not only at the life level and the mind-level, but even deeper
\nwithin himself, at the soul-level, he experienced a closeness to the
\nsoul-consciousness of others. He realised the common nature of his
\nself and the selves of others and underwent the impact of this
\naffinity. All the same he did not allow himself to be swept into the
\ncommon current, overwhelmed by it. He retained the individuality of
\nhis being, self-governed, unique.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Magical Accord<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nmagical accord quickened and attuned
To ethereal symphonies the
\nold earthy strings; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe human system is
\naccustomed, by nature and by habit, to respond spontaneously to the
\ntouches and calls of the physical world. Dominated by its base in the
\nmaterial substance, its actions and reactions are largely confined to
\nmaterial nature; even when they have other elements of a vital or
\nmental character, the physical character is inescapable. All this
\nunderwent a change in Aswapathy. His system began to respond to
\nrhythms of a subtler kind which started vibrating upon his being as
\nit expanded beyond the terrestrial bounds; it bore and thrilled to
\ncontacts from the higher domains of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Spirit’s Acolytes<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nit made
The body\u00e2\u0080\u0099s means the spirit’\u0080\u0099s acolytes. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs a result of this change,
\nthe faculties of mind, life and sensation, which are normally at the
\nservice of the body-self of man, developed into instruments of the
\nsoul, carrying and recording its responses, sharing in its innate
\nlight and bliss. The means fashioned by matter and subservient to
\nmatter passed into the happy service of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Deeper Sheaths<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nsoul’\u0080\u0099s experience of its deeper sheaths
No more slept drugged
\nby Matter’\u0080\u0099s dominance. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe physical is not the
\nonly body encasing the soul. Ensouling it, as it were, and subtler
\nthan it, is the vital body; finer than the vital is the mental body;
\nstill finer is the causal body and the finest of them all is the body
\nof bliss. All these bodies, each subtler than the other, are termed
\nsheaths in view of their functions as so many coverings of the being
\nat the core. The soul lives in all these sheaths simultaneously, at
\ndifferent levels of embodiment, but its experience of them is not
\nnormally communicated to the surface consciousness in which man
\nhabitually lives, because of the veil of obscurity thrown by the
\ndensity of material inconscience and unconsciousness which
\npractically seals off the inner domains of the being from external
\nawareness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThis ceased with Aswapathy.
\nWith the overpassing of the bounds of physical nature the passage was
\nopened and lit up letting the experiences of the deeper sheaths come
\nup whole and living.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
World Unseen<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nworld unseen, unknown by outward mind
Appeared in the silent
\nspaces of the soul. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs a rule, man is aware
\nonly of the little world that is presented to him by his
\nsense-faculties. He has no entry into the larger domains that extend
\nbehind his surface being and above the mental levels on which he
\nlives. When, however, as a result of concentration, or any other
\ninner discipline or by a stroke of Grace, the door between the outer
\nawareness and the regions of subtler consciousness is opened, he
\nbecomes aware of and experiences these belts of existence that lie
\nspread out in the domains of the soul and are far removed from the
\nmind’s world of incessant thought-activity and extrovert movements.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Countries of the
\nUnborn<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe luminous countries of the unborn
Where all things dreamed by
\nthe mind are seen and true
And all that the life longs for is
\ndrawn close. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe human mind always likes
\nto think of, to imagine possibilities beyond the actualities of the
\npresent. These imaginations and dreamings are not, all of them,
\nbaseless and unrealisable. They correspond to certain actuals on
\nplanes of existence that prepare the truths that are to be cast into
\nmanifestation in this universe. It is there that things still to be
\nborn on earth already exist in forms that are proper to those states
\nof consciousness. In fact, it is these truths on the move towards
\nmanifestation that cast their influences on the terrestrial world and
\ncome to the surface in the consciousness of man in the form of
\nideals, dreams, imaginations of the mind and the strainings of the
\nlife-force towards newer possibilities.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Perfect<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nsaw the Perfect in their starry homes
Wearing the glory of a
\ndeathless form
Lain in the arms of the Eternal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s peace,
Rapt
\nin the heart-beats of God-ecstasy. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn his newly awakened
\nvision, Aswapathy could see the perfect beings\u00e2\u0080\u0094the archetypes that
\nproject themselves in the form of Ideals on the mental horizons of
\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0094in their luminous homes. All the elements of perfection were
\nthere: their Forms were not subject to decay and death in the manner
\nof earthly forms; they were immortal. They were enveloped in an
\nimmutable Peace which ensured their transcendence of disintegration
\nand death. But the beings were not, on that account, devoid of
\nsensation, feeling; they were full of the intimate and constant
\necstasy which comes only in oneness with God. All other ecstasy is
\ndependent on outer causes. It is this divine rapture on the solid
\nfoundation of immovable Peace that makes deathlessness possible.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Mystic Space<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe mystic space where thought is born
And will is nursed by an
\nethereal Power
And fed on the white milk of the Eternal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\nstrengths
Till it grows into the likeness of a god. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy ceased to live
\nand think with the thought-mind. He found his station in a region of
\nconsciousness beyond the conceptual mentality where lies the origin
\nof thoughts. It is there that true thought comes into being, yet
\nunmodified and unmixed with the workings of the lower levels of the
\nmind, and the thought develops into a will. This nascent will is
\nhelped to grow by the reigning higher Power and shaped into form by
\nthe infusion of a divine Strength natural to that plane of
\nconsciousness till it acquires the force and effectivity of the gods
\nabove.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIn those higher domains
\nwill is not separated from thought as is the case in the human mind;
\nnor is that will mixed with weakening elements like desire and
\nself-regarding ego.
<\/FONT><\/FONT>


\n<\/P>
\n


\nUndivided Time<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nowned the house of undivided Time. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the state of
\nconsciousness attained by Aswapathy, Time changed its character. It
\nno more held the being prisoner of the present, with the past
\nreceding into the oblivion of memory and the future concealed to
\nsight. Time was experienced as one continuous extension, without the
\nusual demarcations of the past, present and future. All was seen in
\none vision. Further, it did not contain him; it became rather a
\ncircumstance of his existence.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Curtain<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLifting
\nthe heavy curtain of the flesh
He stood upon a threshold
\nserpent-watched, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy crossed the
\nbarrier of the physical consciousness which shuts off all the regions
\nof subtler existence and found himself at the entrance of a new world
\nwhich was guarded by the sentinel of the gods, the mystic serpent
\nthat allows no one to cross unless he has fulfilled the conditions
\ndemanded: the leaving behind of the all too human elements of desire
\nand ego. To enter the higher worlds we must cast away the legacies of
\nthe lower ones.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
A New Consciousness<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nconsciousness of beauty and of bliss,
A knowledge which became
\nwhat it perceived,
Replaced the seperated sense and heart
And
\ndrew all Nature into its embrace. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe separativity of being
\nnatural to the ego-bound existence of man was no more there. Instead
\nthere was felt a oneness with all. There were no more the
\ndisfigurements of division, the incapacities and denials of
\nlimitation; they gave way to unmarred beauty of form and undiminished
\nbliss of the Spirit. He did not have to know things in the old ways
\nof the mind in ignorance to which the object to be known is always
\nforeign to itself; his was a new kind of knowing in which knowledge
\nwas one of identity,\u00e2\u0080\u0094the perceiving faculty entered into the very
\nsubstance of the object and made it part of its consciousness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Hidden Worlds (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…the
\nhidden worlds. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAir
\nglowed and teemed with marvellous shapes and hues,
In the
\nnostrils quivered celestial fragrances,
On the tongue lingered
\nthe honey of paradise. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis physical world is not
\nthe only one in the Creation. There are many other worlds with their
\nrespective governing truths and constituting elements which are in
\nconformity with their principles of existence. They are differently
\nmade, their rhythms are different, their forms are different. The
\nshapes and the colours in those realms are less fixed than those in
\nthe material world and much more varied and picturesque. The
\nfragrances and the sweetnesses that pervade some of these worlds are
\nof an unearthly kind. Sight, smell, taste run into different
\ndimensions.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
HIDDEN WORLDS (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nchannel of universal harmony,
Hearing was a stream of magic
\naudience,
A bed for occult sounds earth cannot hear. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSo also with sounds. The
\nsound natural to the human ear is only the gross form of a Sound that
\nis highly subtle and spiritual in its origin. It passes through
\nseveral grades of densification before it takes the form proper to
\nthe physical hearing. To hear these subtle sounds one needs to be
\ntuned into their respective levels of being. Only a trained ear,
\nprocessed in the subtilisation of consciousness, can be receptive
\ntothese higher rhythms which are too subtle, too rarefied to be heard
\nby the physical audition. These are the rhythms, notes of the
\ncreative nada, that constitute the essential Harmony sustaining the
\nworlds and their beings and forces, and it is only he who is attuned
\nto that Harmony in his consciousness that can receive those sounds.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nthe nostrils quivered celestial fragrances,
On the tongue
\nlingered the honey of paradise. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis physical world is not
\nthe only one in the Creation. There are many other worlds with their
\nrespective governing truths and constituting elements which are in
\nconformity with their principles of existence. They are differently
\nmade, their rhythms are different, their forms are different. The
\nshapes and the colours in those realms are less fixed than those in
\nthe material world and much more varied and picturesque. The
\nfragrances and the sweetnesses that pervade some of these worlds are
\nof an unearthly kind. Sight, smell, taste run into different
\ndimensions.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Voice of Truth
\nSubmerged (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOut
\nof a covert tract of slumber self
The voice came of a truth
\nsubmerged, unknown
That flows beneath the cosmic surfaces
Only
\nmid an omniscient silence heard,
Held by intuitive heart and
\nsecret sense. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBehind the surfaces of the
\nconsciousness on which man lives normally, there are layers of which
\nhe is only half-aware and others of which he is not aware at all; he
\nis asleep in them, su\u00c8\u0099upta, the real truth of life is concealed
\nthere. The voice of this truth is not heard by the physical ear
\nattuned only to physical existence. It is heard in the pregnant
\nsilence that reigns on the deeper levels of the consciousness, a
\nsilence that is not empty and void but full of the undelivered
\ncontents of Knowledge. And that audition is not received in the
\nreasoning mind but in the heart that perceives and feels directly,
\nintuitively; it is not seized by the groping outer senses but held by
\nthe suresense-faculty within that is at the root of all the senses.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Voice of Truth
\nSubmerged (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt
\ncaught the burden of secrecies sealed and dumb,
It voiced the
\nunfulfilled demand of earth
And the song of promise of unrealised
\nheavens
And all that hides in an omnipotent Sleep. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis voice revealed to
\nAswapathy the secret intention in Nature: it impressed upon him the
\nfact of the earth’s aspiration for the divine life still lying
\nunfulfilled; it held before him the sure prospect of the glories of
\nthe divine Spirit that await human effort to scale them. And more. It
\ncommunicated to him all else that holds itself in the in-turned folds
\nof Consciousness\u00e2\u0080\u0094supremely potent\u00e2\u0080\u0094waiting for its hour of
\nmanifestation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Insoluble Doubt<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
Insoluble doubt on a pilgrimage without goal, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFrom a certain standpoint
\nthe world-movement bears a big question mark. What is the purpose of
\nit all? Or is there any purpose at all? If aim there be, why is it
\nthat all things do not always subserve it? Perhaps there is no
\nmeaning and it is only the limited mind of man that reads its own
\nnotions in the cosmos? And so on.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThese doubts afflict every
\nmovement and even if, somehow, one doubt is met, another arises, and
\nthis goes on indefinitely. For it is the nature of doubt, as Sri
\nAurobindo has observed, to doubt always. There is no finis to it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Desire<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nmurmurings of desire that cannot die: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nDesire, that afflicts all
\nlife in this world and generally forms the main motive-spring of
\nactivity, is endless. A desire fulfilled breeds further desires; a
\ndesire denied builds up an obsession of itself. In either case, the
\nproddings of Desire are incessant and they impel man to constant
\nexertion. Desire hides behind many camouflages with high-sounding
\nnames like duty, responsibility, altruism and it pursues man till he
\novercomes it, overpasses the need of it for his life-movement. For in
\nthe scheme of Nature, Desire has an important role to play in
\nstirring the being out of the sleep of the sub-conscience and in
\npropelling its growth upwards in the scale of consciousness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Delight to Be<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe world’s delight to be <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBasic to the existence of
\nthe worlds is the Delight of the Supreme Being in Becoming. The
\nSat-Chit-Ananda of the Creative Spirit pours itself out in the
\nDelight of manifestation and it is this Delight that supports all
\nexistence. Behind all the pain, suffering and struggle so patent in
\nthis world, there is, underlying, this flow of Delight which keeps
\nthings in existence and expresses itself as the will-to-live in each.
\nUnbaffled by all opposite formations and malformations in the course
\nof the development of life and consciousness, the substantial Bliss
\nat the core goes on asserting its right to be and to expand.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Will to Live<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ngrandeur and greatness of its will to live, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe will-to-live that
\ncharacterises all forms in this creation is really a projection of
\nthe Will of the Supreme Being in manifestation. This will is there
\nbecause the Divine has willed it so. And this will is supported by
\nthe Delight of the Divine in becoming. It is not deterred by the
\nlabour involved in asserting itself, whatever be the odds, against
\nthe elements of Inconscience and Ignorance. It is not limited in its
\nvision to the immediate and the local. It may change its
\ncircumstances, or it may change its forms to suit the circumstances,
\nbut it will not flag. The will stays undeflected, irreversible.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Soul’s Adventure<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe soul’s adventure into space, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEach soul is here on earth
\nfor a purpose. From the heights and infinities of the Supreme Being,
\nthe soul has emanated into this field of circumstances in order to
\nrealise and manifest here its innate divine nature in a manifold
\nbecoming. It has dared to involve and lose itself, as it were, in the
\nconditions of obscurity, inconscience and death within the
\nlimitations of time and space. And from there it seeks to build up
\nand express its own powers of light, consciousness and bliss through
\nthe progression of lives in which it participates.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Unheard Sounds<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nmurmur and whisper of the unheard sounds
Which crowd around our
\nhearts but find no window To enter <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the world of our
\nexperience, only a few of the possibilities are actualised. There are
\ninnumberable truths and forces striving for expression in this
\ncreation but they are unable to get the assent of the mind and the
\nconsciousness of man which are either not ready to receive them or
\ntoo much lost in other formations to take cognisance of them. In
\neither case these truths\u00e2\u0080\u0094of whatever kind, of knowledge, of power,
\nof beauty, of bliss\u00e2\u0080\u0094are denied openings to manifest themselves. But
\nthey go on pressing upon the human consciousness, prompting it,
\nmaking themselves felt in many ways\u00e2\u0080\u0094direct and indirect.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
World-Rhythms<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nwide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant
To which life
\nstrives to fit our rhyme-beats here, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis creation is a cosmos
\nwith its large lines of development proceeding according to the
\nimpulsions of the governing truths that are put out by the Creative
\nDivine for manifestation. There is an order which arises from the
\nTruth in action and rules from above, and within, all movements in
\nprogression. All activities of the worlds, all the beings and the
\nforces, are inwardly impelled to follow these great vibrations of the
\nCreative Movement. The meaning of progress, of evolution, of
\nlife-endeavour is to get attuned to these profound rhythms and flow
\nin line with them. Only so can the limitations and bounds of finite
\nnature be absorbed and assumed into the widenesses and freedoms of
\nthe greater term of the Infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nEach one has its own
\nnatural rhythm; to set it in tune with the universal rhythms is the
\nart of life.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe worlds came into being
\non the rhythms of the creative Word, vy\u00c4\u0081h\u00c5\u0097tis, they are developing
\ninto their growing symphonies and the entire Movement is going to
\nreveal itself as an orchestral whole vibrating with divine harmonies.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Subconscient
\nMuttering<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA low
\nmuttering rose from the subconscient caves,
The stammer of the
\nprimal ignorance; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy became conscious
\nof the effort of the evolving spirit on the lower levels of existence
\nalso. In those regions where consciousness is still half asleep and
\nnot yet awakened to awareness, where the light of consciousness is
\nnot yet and all is still in dark, he heard the stirrings of the
\nconcealed spirit. The dense sleep of the inconscient had receded and
\na state of half-awareness was trying to articulate itself into a
\nfuller awakening. This movement was still inchoate, in the first
\nsteps of its formation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Superconscient
\nAnswer<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAnswer
\nto that inarticulate questioning,
There stooped with lightning
\nneck and thunder\u00e2\u0080\u0099s wings
A radiant hymn to the Inexpressible
\n
And the anthem of the superconscient light. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHowever weak and stumbling
\nthe seeking in the subconscient parts of the being may be, it is not
\nwithout help, left to its own resources. There is always an uplifting
\nresponse from the higher levels, the regions of the super-conscious.
\nThe help that comes is swift and effective, full of the light and
\nglory characteristic of its place of origin. It is this interaction
\nbetween the call\u00e2\u0080\u0094however feeble\u00e2\u0080\u0094from the subconscious and the
\npowerful responsive inflow from the super-conscious levels of
\nexistence that builds the gradations of consciousness emerging from
\nthe sleep of inconscience to the summits of superconscience.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Revelation<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nVision
\nand dream were fables spoken by truth
Or symbols more veridical
\nthan fact,
Or were truths enforced by supernatural seals. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the subtler worlds that
\nopened out to the vision of Aswapathy in his ascent, things were
\ncommunicated in a language that was different from that of the
\nterrestrial human world. Not by words was knowledge given. It was a
\ncontinuous revelation of truths through visions that impinged upon
\nthe eye, dreams that figured the workings of truths to the perceiving
\nmind and vivid symbols more concrete and alive with the truths behind
\nthem than the facts of earthly experience. Truths did not need to be
\nformulated and justified in the ways of mental reason; each truth
\ncarried its own stamp of authenticity that was self-sufficient.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Ever-Living<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…beings
\nof many kingdoms neared and spoke:
The ever-living whom we name
\nas dead <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMany were the worlds
\nthrough which Aswapathy passed. Far beyond the physical world which
\nhis consciousness had outgrown, there were tiers of worlds in
\ndifferent planes of existence. Each world was organised into a unit
\nworking out the growing principle of truth special to it. There
\nAswapathy was met by the beings who were the natural denizens of
\nthose domains, and also by those who were there in the course of
\ntheir transit to different destinations. Among the latter were those
\nwho are called the dead by the humans on earth because they have left
\ntheir physical bodies. In truth, however, one is not dead in
\nconsciousness simply because the material sheath is shed; the soul,
\nthe real person, lives and continues to live in other sheaths on the
\nsubtler planes of being. It is these who greeted the high-soaring
\nKing.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Wisdom<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe wisdom which exceeds all phrase: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTrue wisdom, the
\nself-formulation of Truth in terms of knowledge, does not need to be
\nclothed in verbal form. In fact, it suffers a diminution when pressed
\ninto human language because the full connotation of the knowledge far
\nexceeds the most that can be conveyed through words which are fit
\nonly to transmit a lower experience. Human speech, says the
\nUpanishad, returns baffled from the Knowledge Supreme.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Battle for Soul<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ngods of light and titans of the dark
Battled for his soul as for
\na costly prize. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere is a continuous
\nstruggle between the hosts of Darkness and the children of Light\u00e2\u0080\u0094the
\nAsuras, the Rakshasas, the Demons and their brood of falsehood and
\negoism on the one hand and the Gods and their Powers of radiance on
\nthe other\u00e2\u0080\u0094for the domination and possession of this creation of the
\nDivine. And man, as the spear-head of this evolving manifestation, is
\nthe special centre of this battle. His life is a field for the
\nconcentrated projection of this universal combat, and a soul gained
\nor lost is a significant victory or setback for either side. At each
\nmoment of his life, man is confronted with the choice between good
\nand evil, with their protagonists ever on the watch to seize the
\nsituation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
New Discovery<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nevery hour loosed from the quiver of Time
There rose a song of
\nnew discovery, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe worlds are continually
\non the move. There is nothing static in this manifestation. All is in
\nincessant movement towards the progression of the universe in a
\ngrowing fullness. New truths, new forces, new possibilities are being
\nthrown in by the manifesting Godhead all the time, and each moment is
\nfresh with newer factors entering into the situation. For one who
\nperceives this truth in the creation, life is a perpetual adventure,
\na thrilling discovery.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Honeyed Pleadings<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAnd
\nhoneyed pleadings breathed from occult lips
To help the heart to
\nyield to rapture\u00e2\u0080\u0099s call, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe beings of the subtler
\nworlds called upon Aswapathy to abandon himself to the bliss that is
\nnaturally aflow in those realms. They pleaded with him but in vain,
\nfor he was all set to reach a higher goal and would not tarry at
\nwayside stations participating in their proffered enjoyments.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nEach world in the stair of
\nthe divine Creation has its characteristic formulations of the
\nmanifest Consciousness; they are domains of varying degrees of Power,
\nof Knowledge, of Joy, with their respective guardians of an occult
\norder.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Opening of Gates<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAnd
\nwith a silver cry of opening gates
Sight\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lightnings leaped
\ninto the invisible. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe road of the pilgrim to
\nthe Infinite is not an open highway. From plane to plane, from level
\nto level of consciousness, there are checkposts, doors of admission
\nwhich open only to those who have acquired the right to get across.
\nThese gates, daivih dv\u00c4\u0081r\u00c4\u0081h, swing open only at the assent of the
\nconcerned gods to the mounting aspirations of man. And when they
\npart, new horizons come into view; what was unseeable before lies
\nexposed to the seeking eye.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Silent Self<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n… a
\nsilent self where world was not <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBeyond the region of the
\nactive mind is a state of consciousness which is not involved in the
\nmovement. It is aloof, silent and intense in its self-gathering. When
\none steps into this belt of consciousness, the Being, the Self that
\nis there is alone experienced and all else appears distant, vague,
\nquite unreal. The world and its activities do not have their usual
\nsense of reality to one who has arrived at this state of
\nconsciousness; the Self constituting that consciousness alone exists.
\nAgainst that background the world looks no more than a moving
\npicture.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Light of Identity<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nall was known by the light of identity
And spirit was its own
\nself-evidence. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere is a state of
\nconsciousness where one does not need to exercise the faculties of
\nthe intellect to know things. One knows by a kind of oneness in
\nconsciousness. There is no separate object to be reached and grasped
\nby means of the cognitive mind. There is instead a natural extension
\nof one’s consciousness which becomes one with the object of knowledge
\nand the contents of the object reveal themselves spontaneously to it.
\nThis is the highest kind of knowledge, knowledge by identity. It is
\ninfallible. In such a condition, no proof is needed of the existence
\nof the Spirit. It becomes self-evident to the consciousness which
\nsees what it feels and feels what’ it sees.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Oneness (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nunity is too close for search and clasp
And love is a yearning of
\nthe One for the One,
And beauty is a sweet difference of the Same
\n
And oneness is the soul of multitude. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy has arrived, in
\nthe course of his ascent in consciousness, at a zone where divisions
\ncease to be. The Many are there but governed by the dominant spirit
\nof Oneness of the manifesting Divine. All is felt and realised as the
\nOne in extension. There is here no ‘other’ to be sought for and
\nembraced. Love flows out not from one to another\u00e2\u0080\u0094for there is no
\nother — but from the One poised here to Itself poised elsewhere. The
\nsame One stresses Itself differently for purposes of its play and in
\nthat self-variation lies beauty. The Many are a fact but all are
\nensouled, energised by a ruling Oneness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Oneness (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nall the truths unite in a single truth,
And all ideas rejoin
\nReality. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOn this level of
\nmanifestation, all the truths formulated by the mind and warring with
\neach other on the lower planes of mentality converge into the one
\nTruth of which they were the deflected rays. All recover this element
\nof truth in this fulfilling meeting. All ideas, which are really
\nsparks of the One Reality caught and formulated in its conceptual
\nmould by the mind as if they were independent truths, recover their
\nsource and fall into the right pattern.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
No Words<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nknowledge needs not words to embody Idea; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt is in the region of the
\nthought-mind that knowledge needs to formulate itself in words.
\nUnless the idea clothes itself in words it does not acquire enough
\nconcreteness to be handled by the mind. But above this domain,
\nKnowledge delivers itself in many other ways: ways of revelation, of
\nintuition, and the consciousness receives it without the medium of
\nwords.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Thought-Cell<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthought\u00e2\u0080\u0099s carved brilliant cell to rest
Whose single window\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\nclipped outlook on things
Sees only a little arc of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s vast
\nsky. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mind has several strata
\nof consciousness each of which has its own mode of working. The
\nthought-mind for instance, needs to give the form of thought to every
\nbit of incoming knowledge; all have to take the mould of thought. But
\nthe range and width of this thought-world, however wide it may seem
\nwhen compared with the still lower formulations of the mental
\nconsciousness, is narrow. It sees and grasps only in tiny bits and
\ncuts into segments before it can understand. That is why its
\nknowledge is always partial.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Wider than the World<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhile
\nthere, one can be wider than the world; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs long as man lives
\nconfined to the physical consciousness of the body, he is a part, an
\ninfinitesimal part, of the world. He is contained in one of its
\nmillion forms and lives a prisoner. But as he develops in his mind
\nand soul, he is able to expand in his consciousness till he arrives
\nat a state of being which embraces the whole world. He can go further
\nand grow into a consciousness which goes beyond the world and
\ncontains it in his wide existence. All this is possible even while
\nremaining in the physical body; only the centre of life is shifted to
\nthe deeper and the higher levels of consciousness which are then
\nactivised.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Still Consciousness<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe still consciousness sustaining all. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mobile is not all. It
\nneeds some base on which to move and live. The worlds on the move in
\nwhich live all creatures are upheld and sustained by an unmoving
\nSelf, a Consciousness that is immobile. All action is supported by a
\nPower that withholds from activity, all words issue from a Silence
\nthat bases them. The k\u00c8\u0099ara moves upon the bosom of the ak\u00c8\u0099ara.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Soul-Knowledge<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nvoice that only by speech can move the mind
Became a silent
\nknowledge in the soul; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mind, which normally
\nserves as the instrument of knowledge, is not the only means of
\nknowledge, nor is its way of formulating in words before it can
\nunderstand, the sole possible process. A truer and larger
\nunderstanding is possible by the direct action of the soul; if the
\nconsciousness is gathered in Silence in the depths of the soul,
\nKnowledge arises in a spontaneous movement. No mental activity is
\nnecessary. Besides, the knowledge acquired by the mind is limited and
\nvitiated by the very nature of the imperfect mentality. What is
\nperceived and received in the soul is whole and unmodified.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Strength in Peace<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nstrength that only in action feels its truth
Was lodged now in a
\nmute omnipotent peace. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOne is commonly accustomed
\nto recognise strength only when it operates in some activity. Where
\nthere is no perceptible action one is apt to think there is no power
\npresent. But that is not a fact. Power can hold itself immobile,
\nself-gathered in status; in such a condition, it is more dynamic
\nbecause it is more concentrated, not dispersed. All movement, all
\naction is possible because basing it there is this potent strength
\nholding itself in Silence, in immutable Peace, Shakti acts because
\nthere is Shiva to sustain.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Unanimity<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nvast unanimity ended life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s debate. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLife in this material
\nuniverse is a field of combat. At every step, at every level, there
\nis a clash of possibilities, a friction of forces trying to
\neffectuate themselves. In each individual and also between the
\nindividual and others there is this constant movement of claims and
\ncounter claims; thoughts, feelings, willings are ever pouring out,
\nstriving for supremacy. There is, however, a state of being, a level
\nof consciousness, where this feature of struggle ceases to be. All
\nfalls into a pattern of one scheme which embraces everything in its
\ntotality. Each element finds its just place and all together combine
\ninto a living whole.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Equal<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nclash of forces struggling to prevail
In the tremendous shock
\nthat lights a star
As in the building of a grain of dust, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nCreative Nature bestows as
\nmuch care and attention on the fashioning of a gigantic form as of an
\ninfinitesimal one. For both are manifestations of the same Divine.
\nBrahman is present equally in the big and in the small. From this
\npoint of view, quantity and size are an illusion. Brahman gives
\nhimself entirely in each form; he does not measure himself out
\naccording to the physical dimensions of each. To the Divine all are
\nequally significant.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Personality out of
\nMud<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe dire force of lust
That wakes kinetic in earth\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dullard
\nslime
And carves a personality out of mud, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMaterial nature is
\ncharacterised in its beginnings by inconscience, inertia, obscurity.
\nThere is resistance to every kind of movement. And yet, a dynamic,
\nvariegated creation is outflowing on this base of immobility. That is
\nbecause contained in physical matter there is an impulsion of desire,
\ndesire to possess and to enjoy, and this force for conquest and
\nappropriation goes into action, gathers round itself the necessary
\nelements for the fulfilment of its objective and out of the inert
\nmass shapes living and conscious individualities that can take the
\njoy.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Hunger<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nsorrow by which Nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hunger is fed, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n‘Hunger that is death’,
\nsays the Upanishad. For hunger is to feed oneself with what is other
\nthan oneself, to swallow and absorb something else. And this means
\ndeath to what is so eaten. Life feeds upon life; what is joy and
\nnourishment to one brings sorrow and death to another. This is a
\nconstant feature of life in this world.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Oestrus<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\noestrus which creates with fire of pain, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWith all the inertia and
\ndullness that so strongly characterise Matter in Nature, there is
\nmovement, there is growth. That is because embedded in the density of
\nMatter is an impulsion of the Spirit which acts like an oestrus,
\nconstantly astir, always trying to break out and manifest itself and
\nin the process exerting mounting pressure upon the resistant
\nmaterial. This insistent impulsion from within, gathering force in
\nthe heat of its movement and friction, makes all new creation
\npossible.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Virtue and Defeat<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nfate that punishes virtue with defeat, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMan looks for handsome
\nreward for his virtue, expects virtue to win and vice to lose. But
\nwiser fates have other ways to promote the ends of Nature which go
\nbeyond both virtue and vice. The path of virtue is hard like all
\npaths that lead upwards and the path of vice easy like the downward
\nslopes. Virtue is its own reward because of the inner strength it
\nbuilds up in its practice and if very often its way is strewn with
\ndifficulties and material disappointments, it should be remembered
\nthat these act, in the long run, like feeders to the development of
\nthe soul which grows more quickly under the stress of adversity than
\nin the laxities natural to an easier life. In all seeming punishments
\nthere is a hidden intention of the life-spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Small Result<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis
\nhuge material universe became
A small result of a stupendous
\nforce: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFrom the status to which
\nAswapathy had attained, the whole perspective of this world was found
\nto have changed. This material universe, which is imposing in its
\nmassive size and gives the appearance of a self-existent reality, was
\nseen to be a creation, a product of the workings of a Force, a Shakti
\nthat is illimitable. Compared to the vastness of this Power the
\nuniverse looked paltry in its extent; it was seen to be only one of
\nthe many universes put out by the Force. He also glimpsed the much
\nthat was not yet manifested and realised that what was manifested was
\nonly a fraction of what still remained unmanifest.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Mind-Screen<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nsoul could sail beyond thought\u00e2\u0080\u0099s luminous bar;
Mind screened no
\nmore the shoreless infinite. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe faculty of thought is a
\npowerful factor in the evolution of man from the animal into a
\nthinking being. It enables man to become self-aware and capable of
\ntaking charge of his life-movement. It also enables him to organise
\nand speed up his growth in the direction he chooses. But after a
\nstage, this very helpful mind faculty becomes an obstruction. It does
\nnot allow anything that surpasses its bounds to become effective
\nunless that subjects itself to the requirements and standards set up
\nby the thinking finite reason. All that is above the thought-range of
\nthe mind, all that overflows the finite limits of the mind, is
\nconvicted of unreality and tabooed. It holds up the evolutionary
\nprogression of man until he learns to outgrow its narrow boundaries
\nand extend his consciousness beyond it.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Mobile and Immobile<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMovement
\nwas married to the immobile Vast; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMovement and status are not
\ncontradictory terms as their surface appearance would suggest.
\nMovement is related to what does not move, it is supported by the
\nmoveless. It becomes possible because the stable and the unmoving
\nholds it at the base. As one goes deeper in consciousness, the whole
\nworld-movement is realised to be possible because there is an
\nimmobile status upholding it. The movement of the worlds takes place
\non the grounds of the Self. The Divine first stations itself as the
\nImmobile and upon that base all its mobile formulations move.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Plunge into the
\nInfinite<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nplunged his roots into the Infinite,
He based his life upon
\nEternity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEnclosed in a finite form
\nof the body and moving within the terms of time, man’s life has a
\nlimited range. His consciousness is confined by habit within these
\nlimits and its power is naturally stunted. But if he frees his
\nconsciousness from this subjection to the limitations of form and
\ntime, he finds his true soul-nature which is boundless, infinite. And
\nonce he partakes of this freedom into the Infinite, he is no more
\nbound by the shackles of time; he lives in a consciousness that is
\neternal. The eternal is realised as a term of the Infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Slowly they Fail<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nhigh and luminous tension breaks too soon,
The body\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stone
\nstillness and the life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s hushed trance,
The breathless might
\nand calm of silent mind;
Or slowly they fail as sets a golden
\nday. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhen one comes into deeper
\nor higher states of consciousness there is experienced a spontaneous
\nuplifting of the being in all its parts. The physical body finds its
\nhabitual restlessness yielding to a solid calm which begins to settle
\nin its members. The constant outward movements of the life-force get
\nfolded back as it were and gather themselves inward in a state of
\nimmobility. Even the mind, ever occupied with its never ending
\nthoughts and dissipating itself in helplessly running with the
\nsenses, becomes quiet, its movement gets steadied and with it the
\nmovement of the life-breath that supports it. A quieted mind
\nautomatically reduces and thins the action of the prc7na till it
\npractically ceases to make itself felt in the condition of deep
\nsilence. But all these states do not stay permanently\u00e2\u0080\u0094at least till
\nthey are normalised into natural conditions. The uplifting
\nsupernatural tension that pervades during such periods cannot be
\nsupported by the system for long; the constitution is accustomed to a
\nlesser voltage. Either it snaps suddenly or gradually weakens and
\npasses.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Tired of Peace<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nrestless nether members tire of peace; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe lower nature of man is
\nalways governed by desire. Desire makes him restless till it is
\nsatisfied. One desire follows another and so it goes on, endlessly.
\nThe life-force that activates the nature is afflicted with these
\ndesires and consequently there is a ceaseless agitation and movement.
\nThis becomes natural to the body, the vitality and the mind governed
\nby that nature. Even if by some means peace and calm are imposed upon
\nthose members, they cannot sustain it for long. They swing back to
\ntheir usual state. A minimum of purity and gathered will are
\nnecessary to hold this peace.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Poise of Fall<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nneed to rest in a natural poise of fall, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe weight of inertia and
\ndullness in the physical and obscure parts of the being constantly
\npulls back the system into a state of tiredness and inaction. The
\neffort at awareness and the readiness for exertion pall and the body
\nis forced to slide into positions that conduce to rest and
\nrecuperation. From the erect and the alert, one sinks to the
\nslouching and sleeping postures.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Sacred Fire<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOn
\nthe heart\u00e2\u0080\u0099s altar dim the sacred fire. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe aspiration in the heart
\nburns bright initially and for some time. Thereafter other impulses
\nrise up in the nature; the pull of inertia in the physical, lack of
\nenthusiasm in the vital, distraction and doubts in the mind, cover
\nthe flame of aspiration with their smoke. This is the period of
\ndryness, of struggle calling for the exertion of the will to subdue
\nthe obstructing elements and keep the flame burning bright with
\nappropriate feeders of stimulating movements.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Downward Drag<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n… a
\ndull gravitation drags us down
To the blind driven inertia of our
\nbase. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe movement of
\nconsciousness in evolution is always upward; degree by degree it
\nworks its way up, developing suitable embodiments for its expression
\nand organisation. But all the time it is subject to pulls from below.
\nFor the Matter on which it bases itself in its ascent is inert in
\nmass, inconscient in its energy, and this character of its matrix
\nimposes its characteristic handicaps on the ascending movement. There
\nis a constant holding back, a habit in Nature of pulling from under
\nand this impedes the progression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Fall a Means for
\nRise<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\nmakes our fall a means for greater rise. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the scheme of the divine
\nProvidence that governs this evolutionary world, even set-backs,
\nfailures, defeats, have a meaning. They reveal chinks in the armour,
\nforce one to turn round and look into oneself for the causes, the
\ndeficiencies\u00e2\u0080\u0094physical and psychological\u00e2\u0080\u0094that have led to the
\nfall. And if one is sincere and takes the necessary steps to rectify
\nthe hindering elements, then a new possibility is opened and with
\nbetter equipment progress is ensured. It is thus that failures become
\nmeans for eventual success and successes can prove to be arrestations
\nof growth by promoting a false sense of accomplishment.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Power and Self<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nformless Power, the Self of eternal light
Follow in the shadow of
\nthe spirit\u00e2\u0080\u0099s descent; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis Creation is not
\nsomething that has issued out of a supreme Spirit and then left to
\nitself to work out its career. In the very process of its descent
\nfrom the heights of the Spirit, the Divine has followed and involved
\nitself in the movement in two poises that are necessary for working
\nout its intention in Creation. It holds itself as the supporting Self
\nof all and each, a concentration of its innate, luminous
\nconsciousness as the guiding Intelligence. And it pours itself out as
\nan effectuating Force which acts in the many kinds of energies that
\nflow from it. This is the dual status taken by the Divine in the
\nCreation\u00e2\u0080\u0094Soul and Nature, Purusha and Prakriti\u00e2\u0080\u0094in order to build
\nit in the full figure of the Truth to be manifested.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
All-Knowing Guest<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHe
\ncomes unseen into our darker parts
And, curtained by the
\ndarkness, does his work,
A subtle and all-knowing guest and
\nguide, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nMan is so much steeped in
\nignorance, his faculties and powers are so deeply rooted in inertia
\nand in-conscience, that it is a wonder he moves forward at all. That
\nhe does so is because, behind the veils of obscurity in his nature, a
\nhigher Power is at work to release him from the holds of materiality
\nand lift him up in his consciousness. The Power\u00e2\u0080\u0094the divine
\nIntelligence\u00e2\u0080\u0094does this unknown to the outer being, behind the
\ncurtain of the external nature, so that the limited outer mind may
\nnot interfere with the working and vitiate the results. The
\nIntelligence that dwells within is a direct Power of the Divine Being
\nthat takes station in the mortal to build him into an immortal. It
\nknows all in deep identity and it guides the whole movement to its
\ndestination.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Obey Higher Law (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nhere must learn to obey a higher law,
Our body\u00e2\u0080\u0099s cells must
\nhold the Immortal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s flame. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLife is a continual
\nmovement forward and upward. And all that moves in it has necessarily
\nto adapt itself to changing conditions. The rhythm of today fails
\ntomorrow and one has to find a new step if one would move onward. All
\nthe various parts of man are accustomed to certain laws of work which
\nare natural to them in their particular states of being. But if they
\nare to progress with evolving nature, it is indispensable that they
\nopen to the operations of still higher laws and lift themselves into
\nthe higher mould. The physical body, for instance, is accustomed to
\nlive and function within the bounds of inertia, incapacity and death
\nimposed upon it by material Nature. That, however, is not its whole
\ndestiny. By aspiring and training itself to respond to the demands of
\nthe higher parts it can grow into the domain of their higher laws,
\ntill one day it becomes capable of housing the Immortal Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Obey Higher Law (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nElse
\nwould the spirit reach alone its source
Leaving a half-saved
\nworld to its dubious fate. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIf this world and all its
\nbeings who are rescued from the grip of a total inconscience and
\nimmobility by the saving Power of the Divine Light, did not move in
\nthe direction of higher truths and their laws, then they would remain
\nunfinished where they were, stagnant, and the evolving spirit that is
\nemerging in the cosmic movement would have to reach its destination
\nwithout carrying these various constituents of the creation intended
\nby the Divine to participate and share in the growing progression.
\nOnly the soul would be saved, the body, the life, the mind, being
\nleft behind in a half-done labour.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Sudden Rain<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAlways
\nthe power poured back like sudden rain,
Or slowly in his breast a
\npresence grew, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere are in the spiritual
\njourney of man periods of bright activity and periods of slow
\nassimilation, the mystic Day and Night. The power of the higher
\nconsciousness ever looms above and as soon as conditions are ready in
\nthe adhara, the receptacle of the aspiring system, it descends
\nswiftly and fills as much as can be held. The rain of Indra pours
\nsuddenly and swiftly. Thereafter follows a period of gestation and so
\nit goes on.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nA complementary process is
\nthe growth of the higher consciousness in the individual. Starting as
\nan aspiration, a gathering will, the spiritual element slowly takes
\nshape, fed and fashioned by the descending or manifesting
\nconsciousness. Soon it grows into a palpable Presence in the
\nheart\u00e2\u0080\u0094the cavern of the Heart\u00e2\u0080\u0094and the Son of Man, Agra tan\u00c5\u00abnap\u00c4\u0081t
\nis born.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Remembered Height<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt
\nclambered back to some remembered height
Or soared above the peak
\nfrom which it fell. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe consciousness of the
\nseeker on the path of ascent always looks upward. Its workings may
\nseem to be backwards at times, especially when there are areas in the
\nbeing that have been left out in the process of organisation. Action
\nis shifted to the lower plains till the latter are ready. But once
\nthe assimilation is done, the consciousness lifts itself back to the
\nheight to which it had attained, or,\u00e2\u0080\u0094as a result of the force
\nacquired by strengthening the base\u00e2\u0080\u0094it leaps beyond the level from
\nwhich it had to retreat.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Union<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nunion of the Real with the unique,
A gaze of the Alone from every
\nface,
The Presence of the Eternal in the hours <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs one grows into communion
\nwith the Higher Consciousness, one begins to experience and realise
\nthe true nature of this manifestation. There is an omnipotent
\nReality; but it is not a featureless indeterminate. It formulates
\nitself and to each Form it gives individual significance. Every Form
\nis a special ray of the Infinite. Basically all forms are one. The
\nsole Reality does not merely indwell in each form; it manifests
\nitself through each.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAt first sight, fleeting
\ntime appears to hold all life in its grip. But to a deeper experience
\nTime reveals itself to be a special working of the Timeless. There is
\nan underlying Eternity which is not affected by temporal changes
\nincidental to its self-pouring.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThere is no real gulf
\nbetween the Reality and the world. This truth is realised as man’s
\npartial being and limited look get enlarged in the fullness of
\nspiritual experience.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Spiritual Poise<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n… a
\nfirm spiritual poise,
A constant lodging in the Eternal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\nrealm,
A safety in the Silence and the Ray,
A settlement in
\nthe Immutable. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA shifting of the centre of
\none’s consciousness and activity from the surface mentality involved
\nin a living body to a deeper or higher level of being in the spirit
\nis imperative for any definitive spiritual realisation. This change
\nbecomes stabilised and natural when one normally lives in the
\nconsciousness of eternity without being caught in the flowing
\nvicissitudes of time, when one functions from the position of
\nstrength of a supernal Peace and luminous Knowledge, when one fixes
\noneself to the underlying base of the Self that is not involved in
\nthe Movement.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
God-Child<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhere
\nthe God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn
And the
\nEverlasting puts on Time\u00e2\u0080\u0099s disguise. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll creation is a
\nmanifestation put out from the Being of the Divine. The manifesting
\nSoul is slowly growing under the conditions of Inconscience and
\nemerging Consciousness, Ignorance and Knowledge, Death and Life,
\ndrawing upon both the Mothers for its sustenance. The manifestation
\nproceeds in terms of Time, but what so manifests is indeed beyond the
\nbounds of Time; it is the Eternal Divine who chooses to play with
\ncertain possibilities in his Being.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Equal-Spirit<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTo
\nthe still heights and to the troubled depths
His equal spirit
\ngave its vast assent: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTo be equal to all things
\nis an essential condition for a spiritual consciousness. Whether it
\nis the outer contacts or the inner states, one must front them with
\nan utter equality without agitation or preference of any kind. Only
\nso can the being grow into and acquire the spiritual consciousness
\nwhich is above all dualities. Aswapathy had arrived at this state of
\ndevelopment wherein his being could, impartially and equally, uphold
\nand participate at the same time in the still Peace on its higher
\nsummits and in the vicissitudes of the workings of nature on the
\nlower levels.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Stillness Helped<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nspirit\u00e2\u0080\u0099s stillness helped the toiling world. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe power of a movement
\ndepends upon the strength of its base. Life-movement\u00e2\u0080\u0094universal and
\nindividual\u00e2\u0080\u0094becomes significant and purposeful to the extent that it
\nis effectively supported and directed by a consciousness that is not
\ninvolved and lost in that activity, but holds itself collected and
\nserves as a sustaining reserve. Aswapathy took his position in this
\nstillness of consciousness and from there directed his gaze which
\npoured the strength of his calm into the world-movement.To throw
\noneself into outer action is not the only way to help the world. To
\ndetach oneself, gather one’s force in a calm strength and function
\nfrom that deeper level of consciousness is another and more effective
\nway.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
New Working<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nInspired
\nby silence and the closed eyes’\u0080\u0099 sight
His force could work with
\na new luminous art
On the crude material from which all is made <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFrom his status in the
\nstillness of the Spirit, all the faculties of Aswapathy derived a new
\npower, their range was expanded. New perceptions broke in, fresh
\nsprings of power opened up and the force of his being became more and
\nmore conscious and dynamic, with the result that he could act more
\neffectively and meaningfully in the obscure field of Nature, handle
\nher rough material to a nobler end.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Inconscient<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nillusion and mystery of the Inconscient
In whose black pall the
\nEternal wraps his head
That he may act unknown in cosmic Time. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Inconscient which
\ndominates material Nature in its origin is really not devoid of
\nconsciousness as it appears to be. That is only an appearance. On
\ndeeper scrutiny, it is found that even in the state of ‘Inconscience’
\nthere is present a Consciousness, though the degree of its vibrations
\nis different from that of a more overt kind. The consciousness here
\nis in a condition of self-inyolutiye trance in which the Being has
\nset to work. Such an exclusive concentration of consciousness on the
\naction at hand, oblivious of all else, gives the appearance of
\ninconscience. Actually, the consciousness is there, working intently
\nbehind a purposeful screen of total obscurity.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
God and Nature<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nGod
\nfound in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThat is the purpose of
\ncreation\u00e2\u0080\u0094to bring together and unite the two ends of the Truth in
\nmanifestation. God and Nature are not alien truths irreconcilable
\nwith each other. They are really two poles of one Reality, which when
\nbrought together complete each other and reveal their global oneness.
\nAn integral knowledge, a fuller spiritual experience justifies both
\nGod and Nature in their mutual fulfilment in this Manifestation: God
\nunveils himself in Nature; Nature manifests God.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAll world-movement moves
\ntowards this supreme culmination, consciously or unconsciously. With
\ninner awakening, the effort becomes more purposive.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Single Sun<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nsoul, mind, heart became a single sun; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOrdinarily the different
\nparts of the being are variously developed and each follows its own
\ntrend, with the result that there is a good deal of disharmony among
\nthe members, a clash of pursuits, avoidable wastage of energy. It is
\na sign and part of progress to organise the activities of all the
\nmembers into a whole, gather and integrate them around a central Idea
\nor Motif, so that each falls into its appropriate place and all
\ntogether promote a developing harmony. This took place naturally in
\nAswapathy. The emotions, the thought-movements, the deeper
\naspirations of the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0094all these were lit up by the spirit and
\nradiated a common light.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Dim Reaches<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnly
\nlife\u00e2\u0080\u0099s lower reaches remained dim. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEven when the general
\nsystem is awakened to the call of the higher life and participates in
\nit under the lead of the more developed parts like the mind or the
\nheart, there are areas which are reluctant to receive the
\ntransforming light. They prefer to continue in their long accustomed
\nobscurities, wallow in their quagmires of petty desires and
\nmechanical rounds.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThese are the lower ranges
\nof the life (and also the physical) being which need to be exposed to
\nspecial concentrations of higher light and power before they fall
\ninto line with the rest of the being in progression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Strange Riches (I)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nStrange
\nriches sailed to him from the Unseen;
Splendours of insight
\nfilled the blank of thought, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAmong the many experiences
\nthat came upon Aswapathy in his journey to the heights of the Spirit
\nwere the gifts of new faculties. In his state of silent receptivity,
\nall thought activity had ceased, creating an ideal condition for the
\nhigher and infallible power of insight to function. Thought-movements
\ninterfere with and distort the workings of higher faculties like
\ndirect insight; in their absence, Aswapathy’s mind was filled with
\nthe perceptions that lit up things instantly and revealed their
\ncontents.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Strange Riches (II)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nKnowledge
\nspoke to the inconscient stillnesses, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEven those parts of the
\nbeing which are normally devoid of the waking consciousness came in
\nfor illumination. They had been freed of the mechanical activity of
\nthe blind forces that filled their existence and in that state of
\nquietude, knowledge awoke and communicated itself to them. They did
\nnot have to go through the labours of thought-process to gain
\nknowledge; they were informed by knowledge directly.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Strange Riches (III)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nRivers
\npoured down of bliss and luminous force,
Visits of beauty,
\nstorm-sweeps of delight
Rained from the all-powerful Mystery
\nabove. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHuman contentment,
\npleasure, happiness depend upon the satisfaction of desires and they
\nare always fleeting, chequered. But the bliss that flows from above,
\nfrom the heights of the Spirit, is dependent upon no such external
\nfactors; it is self-existent because it is the nature of the Divine
\nand the Divine is self-existent. This bliss needs a minimum of purity
\nand calm strength to bear and sustain it. Aswapathy received both in
\nan abundant measure. Visions of beauty came to him spontaneously and
\nfilled him with thrills of Delight. Revealed to him were the Beauty,
\nPower and Bliss aspects of the Divine in Manifestation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Strange Riches (IV)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThence
\nstooped the eagles of Omniscience. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Divine is not only
\nBliss and Power but also Knowledge. The Divine Consciousness is
\nSelf-aware and All-aware. That is because it is the Divine
\nConsciousness that has become this All. As one grows in being towards
\nthe Divine, one participates in a progressive measure in this
\nomniscience of the Divine. This action of the Divine Consciousness as
\nKnowledge, an all-comprehending Knowledge from on high, takes many
\nforms in its communication with the mind across the barriers that
\nintervene.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Strange Riches (V)<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nvoices that an inner listening hears
Conveyed to him their
\nprophet utterances,
And flame-wrapt outbursts of the immortal
\nWord
And flashes of an occult revealing Light
Approached him
\nfrom the unreachable secrecy. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe communication from the
\nsupreme heights takes the form of words, but words that cannot be
\nheard by the physical ear. They are words that have different
\nvibrations which can be received only by the subtle hearing which
\nopens by such means as yoga. These auditions come direct from the
\nrealms of Truth\u00e2\u0080\u0094they are the Mantras that are the sound bodies of
\nTruth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nSo too, there are
\nilluminations from a higher light that act upon the subtle vision. As
\none grows into the deeper or higher levels of consciousness, the
\ninner vision behind the outer sight opens and it is visited by sudden
\nflashes of a greater light than the physical which reveal in a moment
\nor moments much more than what the thinking intelligence of man can
\nhope to grasp at the end of its labour. This is a direct revelation,
\ninfallible and instantaneous.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Inspiration<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn
\ninspired Knowledge sat enthroned within
Whose seconds illumined
\nmore than reason\u00e2\u0080\u0099s years: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe means of acquiring
\nknowledge undergo a change. Thinking reason which is the normal human
\ninstrument for knowing, is replaced by a higher faculty which pours
\nknowledge direct from its sources in Truth. There is no need for the
\nmind to labour in the ways of the reasoning intellect; what is sought
\nfor is spontaneously channelled by the power of Inspiration into the
\nreceptive consciousness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAn inspired living
\nKnowledge takes the place of the figure of knowledge drawn by reason.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Revelation<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn
\nictus of revealing lustre fell
As if a pointing accent upon
\nTruth, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere is also an effortless
\nKnowledge that is presented to the eye. Things are revealed as they
\nare; rays of illumination fall upon the object of knowledge and bring
\nbefore the sight its truth-content. Not all the coverings of
\nignorance and falsehood can obstruct the action of this search-light
\nof Revelation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Intuitive
\nDiscernment<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…like
\na sky-flare showing all the ground
A swift intuitive discernment
\nshone. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere is yet another
\noperation of this high knowledge. It is the play of intuition, an
\ninstant and direct perception of the truth of things. This intuitive
\nfaculty, when it becomes active, stamps the power of discrimination
\nwith its own character of rapid, infallible perception. There is an
\nautomatic sifting of the true from the false wherever the gaze is
\ndirected.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
False Claimants<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTo
\ncheck the claimants crowding through mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gates
Covered by
\nthe forged signatures of the gods,
Detect the magic bride in her
\ndisguise
Or scan the apparent face of thought and life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe number of ideas,
\nthoughts, inspirations that pour into the mind are endless. Many of
\nthem are, obviously, unsubstantial and the reason has no difficulty
\nin dismissing them. But there are quite a number that appear
\nauthentic and try to occupy the being. They appear to be inspired
\nfrom some higher sources and their impact carries a force with it
\nthat is misleading. One is apt to take them to be directions from the
\nDivine and instal them as governing truths in one’s life. It needs a
\npurified and intuitive discrimination to scan and scrutinise the
\ncredentials of these claimants for the mind’s acceptance, to see how
\nfar they are true and how far they are false, to see through the
\ncamouflage.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Inspiration<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOft
\ninspiration with her lightning feet,
A sudden messenger from the
\nall-seeing tops,
Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind
\n
Bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nInspiration is always
\nsimple and spontaneous, not slow and laboured like reason. It does
\nnot arrive at a conclusion after a long process of reasoning. It is a
\nray or a current from a direct Knowledge that is self-existent on the
\nheights of the spiritual being. The mind needs to be silent, freed
\nfrom all activity and agitation, in order that the play of
\ninspiration may be recognised and its content grasped in its purity
\nand fullness. When properly received, this message of inspiration is
\nfound to deliver the secret elements of harmony.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Delight (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs if
\nfrom a golden phial of the All-Bliss,
A joy of light, a joy of
\nsudden sight,
A rapture of the thrilled undying Word
Poured
\ninto his heart as into an empty cup, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nInto the heart of Aswapathy
\nthat was emptied of all the turbidities of human nature\u00e2\u0080\u0094its
\npassions and desires, its agitations and excitements\u00e2\u0080\u0094there poured
\nstreams of Delight from above. The Delight of the Blissful manifested
\nitself in the joy of illumination, the joy of revelation; it came
\nalso as the thrill of the immortal Word\u00e2\u0080\u0094the creative Word of the
\nMantra\u00e2\u0080\u0094reverberating in his being. It was a many-sided inflow of
\ndivine Bliss.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Delight (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nrepetition of God\u00e2\u0080\u0099s first delight
Creating in a young and
\nvirgin Time. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis burst of delight in
\nthe being of Aswapathy was something akin to the ebullitions of the
\nBliss of the Divine\u00e2\u0080\u0094the Ananda Brahman — on the crest of which all
\ncreation came to be. For it was in the manifestation of the Delight
\nof Becoming that the Divine Being moved into creation, the Eternal
\npoured itself into Time. The outbreak of the higher Delight in
\nAswapathy heralded the birth of a new creation in his consciousness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Gathered Vision<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll-vision
\ngathered into a single ray,
As when the eyes stare at an
\ninvisible point
Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
\n
An apocalypse of a world of images
Enters into the kingdom of
\nthe seer. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the middle of the
\nforehead, between the eyebrows, is the centre of vision. When one
\ngathers up all the outspread threads of one’s consciousness and
\nconcentrates the sight at this point, intensely and continuously, the
\nphysical veil breaks and a whole world of subtle forms comes before
\nthe eye. One begins to see with this awakened inner vision more
\ndeeply and more largely than is possible with the grosser sight, and
\none gains insight into the origins and ends of things which were
\nnormally beyond the range of the physical sense.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIn the state of
\nconsciousness at which Aswapathy had arrived, this came to be
\nnaturally; one gaze was enough to seize all that was to be known.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Gauze Rent<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\ngreat nude arm of splendour suddenly rose;
It rent the gauze
\nopaque of Nescience:
Her lifted finger\u00e2\u0080\u0099s keen unthinkable tip
\n
Bared with a stab of flame the closed Beyond. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe ranges of the active
\nconsciousness of man are limited on both sides, above and below.
\nBelow, the awareness thickens into belts of semi-consciousness and
\nunconsciousness which are gradually overtaken by complete
\ninconscience where there is no consciousness at all. Above, beyond
\nthe thought-summits of the mind, everything grows blank, the
\nconsciousness falls mute. The heights of super-conscience are beyond
\nthe reach of mental awareness. Both these veils were rent for
\nAswapathy by a luminous Power of Consciousness that broke through the
\nobscurity of the lower ranges by its irresistible pressure and
\nopened, with its edge beyond the thought-mind, the doors of the
\nsuper-conscient through the intensity of his aspiration.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
High Black Wall<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nhigh black wall hiding superconscience, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs the mind ascends the
\nheights of the being beyond the farther ranges of thought, it comes
\nface to face with states of consciousness that are unthinkable;
\nthought gets benumbed and fails, the mind is dazed and falls into a
\nswoon, as it were. All appears and is experienced as a great
\nDarkness, beyond which everything seems to disintegrate. All is a
\ndense Sleep of consciousness. This is the high barrier at which many
\ncease their journey as the end of existence\u00e2\u0080\u0094Nirvana. But that is
\nnot the finale. If one persists, one finds greater realms of Light
\nand Consciousness across this belt of blankness.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Infinite Discovery<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOceans
\nof being met his voyaging soul
Calling to infinite discovery;
\n
Timeless domains of joy and absolute power
Stretched out
\nsurrounded by the eternal hush; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAbove are revealed vaster
\nstretches of being and consciousness ablaze with the splendour of a
\nsuperconscient Truth. They are the worlds of Ananda without
\ninterruption, Power without diminution, manifestations that are not
\nsubject to the conditions of Time and Space. All, however, are found
\nto exist in a supernal ether of Silence where the restless activity
\nof Thought and the agitations of the Life energies are not.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The World’s Design<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIts
\nsymmetry of self-arranged effects
Managed in the deep
\nperspectives of the soul,
And the realism of its illusive art,
\n
Its logic of infinite intelligence,
Its magic of a changing
\neternity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis world is not a product
\nof chance. It is part of a planned cosmic movement of the creative
\nDivine with a definite Purpose. It is He that has gone abroad, says
\nthe Upanishad, the Self-Existent that has ordered all things
\nperfectly according to their nature from years sempiternal. All is
\nenvisaged by the Seer and all movement proceeds according to this
\ndetermining Vision in the heart of things. There is a Law of Truth
\nthat governs. Its many-sided process may appear to escape the
\nsystematising grasp of the human intelligence, but it is nonetheless
\nan effective mode of ensuring the fulfilment of its object. The vast
\nIntelligence that is at work, the prajnii of old, has its own
\nmeasures and steps moving from truth to truth. And the facility with
\nwhich the Eternal pours itself in the hours of Time and possesses
\nthrough self-modifications without interruptions is a marvel.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Letters and Word<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nglimpse was caught of things for ever unknown
The letters stood
\nout of the unmoving Word. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy saw what is
\nnormally unseen, unknown the origins of creation. He perceived the
\nWord from which the world has come to be\u00e2\u0080\u0094the immutable
\nself-gathered Force from which issues the universe. He also saw the
\nfirst manifestations out of the Word, the matrkcis, the various
\nself-configurations as Letters that base and found the world of Names
\nand Forms. These Letters provide the essential sound patterns and
\nform-constituting concentrations for the manifestation in emergence.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Origins (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nthe immutable nameless Origin
Was seen emerging as from
\nfathomless seas
The trail of the Ideas that made the world, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy saw the creative
\nmovement at its origin. There was the Immutable beyond all Name and
\nForm, an indeterminable Infinite Consciousness at still. From this
\nsilent Vast emerged the series of truths to be manifested and these
\ntruths embodied themselves in Ideas. These were the Truth-Ideas in
\nthe working of which this world has come to be. This sequence was
\nshown to Aswapathy.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Origins (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAnd,
\nsown in the black earth of Nature’\u0080\u0099s trance,
The seed of the
\nSpirit\u00e2\u0080\u0099s blind and huge desire
From which the tree of cosmos
\nwas conceived
And spread its magic arms through a dream of space.
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSeen also was the further
\ndevelopment of how the Truth-will of the manifesting Divine embedded
\nitself in the obscure depths of the Inconscience\u00e2\u0080\u0094the state of utter
\nself-involution of the creative Spirit that is the material base of
\nthis universe. It is this illimitable irresistible Will in seed-form,
\nthe Kama of the primaeval Purusha, that is at the root of this
\nvariegated creation that has sprung up and is growing abundantly in
\nall directions, a veritable Aswattha tree of the cosmos whose real
\nfoundations are above, inasmuch as the Will that impels here is
\nprojected from the Beyond.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Immense Realities
\n(I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nlooked out from the shadow of the Unknown
The bodiless
\nNamelessness that saw God born
And tries to gain from the
\nmortal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mind and soul
A deathless body and a divine name. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Supreme Reality cannot
\nbe known by the human mind. It is beyond its reach, in the realm that
\nis unknown to it. Neither form nor name can determine that reality in
\nits transcendent status. But it is out of this indeterminable
\nExistence that the Divine as Being comes into manifestation. And the
\npurpose of this manifestation is for the Divine without Name and Form
\nin its utter Superconscience to acquire a Form that cannot perish and
\na Name that does not limit but reveals the Reality in the conditions
\nof mortality and obscurity.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Immense Realities
\n(II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nimmobile lips, the great surreal wings,
The visage masked by
\nsuperconscient Sleep,
The eyes with their closed lids that see
\nall things,
Appeared of the Architect who builds in trance. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy glimpsed also the
\nPr\u00c4\u0081jna, the great sleep-Self who holds in his being all that is to
\nbe manifested, in the creative incubation of his massed
\nconsciousness, fully awake in his state of tranced concentration,
\npreparing for the emergence of the creation out of the womb of
\nSuperconscience.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Original Desire<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\noriginal Desire born in the Void
Peered out; he saw the hope that
\nnever sleeps,
The feet that run behind a fleeting fate,
The
\nineffable meaning of the endless dream. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy beheld the Desire
\nat the source of all this creation, the Will to manifest in the
\nDivine Being. It is this supreme Will to radiate His Glory that has
\nexpressed itself in this varied Becoming of the Divine and it is this
\nimpulsion that is behind every effort, the Force that never tires in
\nthe universal Movement. It is active incessantly, discouraged by
\nnothing, ever advancing towards the fulfilment of the objective. This
\nTruth-Will gives significance to every bit of this vast
\nworld-movement which is apt to appear, otherwise, as a purposeless,
\nperpetual dream. Failures and set-backs, determinism and chance, are
\nall part of the process of the working out of this Parent Desire\u00e2\u0080\u0094the
\nWill of the Divine to manifest.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
World of Truth<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs if
\na torch held by a power of God,
The radiant world of the
\neverlasting Truth
Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
\n
Above the golden Overmind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s shimmering ridge. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe highest of the worlds
\nof the lower hemisphere is the world of the Overmind. Though at the
\nsummit of this rising tier, bright with the lights of illumination,
\nintuition, inspiration etc., it is still under the shadow of the
\nIgnorance which envelopes this lower half of creation, the
\ntrailokyam. The principle of division has its roots in this world.
\nThe truth of oneness is held in the background allowing a free run
\nfor the force of multiplicity. One has to cross over its borders,
\nbreak its golden lid before one can enter into the realm of the
\nplenary Light of the Divine Truth\u00e2\u0080\u0094the world of Mahas, the vast
\nLight. This is the world of Truth-knowledge and Truth-power that
\nstands at the head of this manifestation drawing it in the figure of
\nits verities.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Love<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nsmile of love that sanctions the long game, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe regard that the Supreme
\nBeing has on this creation is one of Love. And this divine Love is a
\nPower. It not merely sanctions the creative movement but supports it,
\nfurthers it on its career. This Love manifests itself in many forms,
\nnotably as Beauty and Delight, as Compassion and Grace, giving
\nmeaning and direction to the entire Movement.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Chance<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ncalm indulgence and maternal breasts
Of Wisdom suckling the
\nchild-laughter of Chance, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nChance, erratic happening,
\nis only an appearance. It is not the governing truth or feature of
\nthis existence. What looks like unregulated result is really an
\neffect foreseeable by an Intelligence higher than .the mental reason;
\nin fact, it is part of a process initiated and conducted by a divine
\nWisdom, prajn\u00c4\u0081, that rules the universe. What passes for chance is a
\npurposive movement permitted and contained in the larger operations
\nof the Law.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Silence<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSilence
\nthe nurse of the Almighty\u00e2\u0080\u0099s power,
The omniscient hush, womb of
\nthe immortal Word, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll power that is active in
\nthe universe is based on the immutable status of the creative Being.
\nThere in the Silence all power gathers itself and from there all
\nderives its strength. But this state of unmoving consciousness where
\nall is still is not on that account blind and inert. It holds all
\nknowledge in itself and there all is powerfully known. It is again
\nthe source from which issues the Word, the expressive form of the
\nself-existent Knowledge.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe great silence of the
\nspirit is the fount of all Power, Knowledge, Expression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Creative Eye<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe creative eye of Eternity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe very look of the
\nSupreme is dynamic. When He looks at Himself, He
\nperceives\u00e2\u0080\u0094vimar\u00c5\u009ba\u00e2\u0080\u0094the truths that seek to manifest and in that
\nvery perception there is a spontaneous impulsion, a resultant throb,
\nspanda, which stirs into movement the self-manifestation. He
\ncontinues this regard which follows the whole sequence and it is this
\nregard of His that keeps things to their Law, the Truth-imperative.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Inspiration<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ninspiring goddess entered a mortal\u00e2\u0080\u0099s breast,
Made there her
\nstudy of divining thought
And sanctuary of prophetic speech
And
\nsat upon the tripod seat of mind: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nInspiration found her home
\nin Aswapathy; she was no more an erratic visitor as she is wont to be
\nin common humanity. She entered through the wide doors of his
\nexpanded being and occupied the chambers of his mind. She enlivened
\nhis thought-faculties moving them infallibly in the direction of
\nTruth. She impelled his speech to express precisely what was
\nperceived within; and because the utterance carried faithfully the
\ntruths that were precognised by inspired thought, it always proved
\nprophetic. Thought must be guided by true inspiration and speech must
\nbe faithful to the thought-perception.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Wide Above<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nwas made wide above, all lit below. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe whole being was set in
\ntune with the higher Truth-Consciousness, the self-imposed limits of
\nthe reasoning mind were erased and the domains of the mind were
\nthrown open to a free and uninhibited action of the higher faculties
\nof consciousness. So also the nether members of the being were
\nexposed to the charge of that higher Light and their obscurities and
\ndarknesses of sub-conscience and inconscience were eliminated.
\nNothing remained to restrict or limit the working of greater powers.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Wells of Light<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\ndarkness\u00e2\u0080\u0099 core she dug out wells of light, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Higher Power bored
\nthrough the thick crusts of the sub-conscience and the inconscience
\nin the being of Aswapathy and released the light of consciousness
\nlying concealed below. For even in the thickest density of the
\ninconscient there is involved a fully aware consciousness. The
\nstreams of this consciousness were set free and the nether regions
\nwere flooded with their illumination.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Undiscovered Depths<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOn
\nthe undiscovered depths imposed a form, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAreas which had not yet
\nemerged into the belt of awareness\u00e2\u0080\u0094the depths of the subliminal
\nbeing\u00e2\u0080\u0094with their unformed movements, tendencies and impulsions,
\nwere lifted up into articulate expression and their vague seekings
\ngiven precise forms in which to effectuate themselves.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Supernal Day<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nvoice in the heart uttered the unspoken Name,
A dream of seeking
\nthought wandering through space
Entered the invisible and
\nforbidden house:
The treasure was found of a supernal Day. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Name is a Power. It
\nstands for a particular formulation of Consciousness and Force and
\nwhen uttered\u00e2\u0080\u0094audibly or otherwise\u00e2\u0080\u0094acts like a spring summoning
\nall that it represents into action. This was done in the being of
\nAswapathy. His aspirations and seeking for the Eternal took wing and
\ndarted into regions that are covered by the obscurities of Ignorance
\nand In-conscience; and there was found the Light that never sets.
\nHidden in the darkness was the lost Sun.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Riches of the Cave<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nthe deep subconscient glowed her jewel-lamp;
Lifted, it showed
\nthe riches of the Cave
Where, by the miser traffickers of sense
\n
Unused, guarded beneath Night\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dragon paws,
In folds of
\nvelvet darkness draped they sleep
Whose priceless value could
\nhave saved the world. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nDeep in the being of man
\nare powers and faculties that are lying unused. Man lives very much
\non the surface drawing upon only a little of his resources, so much
\nas is necessary to eke out his precarious existence. But within
\nhimself, in the inner recesses of his subtler being are springs of
\npowers and energies that can, if released into action, make a god out
\nof the bounded creature that he is. However, he is not aware of them;
\nor else, he knows of their presence within, but he is too inert, too
\nself-contended, to venture into their realms and awaken them. His
\nlong established habits, routine-bound senses and timid faculties
\nplaying within known bounds of safety keep him a prisoner within the
\nwalls of limitation imposed by primitive Nature. All the unexhausted
\npossibilities of power, of consciousness, lie effectively concealed
\nby the densities of the subconscience and inconscience, usurped, so
\nto say, by the deformed and deforming agents of the primeval
\nIgnorance, the Panis, who will not themselves utilise, nor allow
\nothers to draw upon the treasures of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Lost Herds of the
\nSun<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\ndarkness carrying morning in its breast
Looked for the eternal
\nwide returning gleam,
Waiting the advent of a larger ray
And
\nrescue of the lost herds of the Sun. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe darkness prevailing in
\nthe nether regions of the subconscience and the inconscience is not
\nall darkness. There is concealed within it a light that seeks to
\nemerge from that state. The dark Night carries in its womb the bright
\nDawn. But it cannot effect the breakthrough by itself. It has to be
\nhelped by a greater, unveiled Light to come out. The rays of the
\ncreative Sun of Truth which have got imprisoned in the densities of
\nthe self-involutive spirit await the liberating stroke of the
\nsuper-conscient Truth-Light for this reclamation and participation in
\nthe progressive movement of the universe.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Robbers<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nstolen by the robbers of the Deep,
The golden shekels of the
\nEternal lie,
Hoarded from touch and view and thought\u00e2\u0080\u0099s desire,
\n
Locked in blind antres of the ignorant flood <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere are elements and
\nbeings in creation who seize the gifts of God to man and deny him
\ntheir use so that he may not be able to make much headway in his
\nGodward progression, but be obliged to stay in the domain of
\nIgnorance under the rule of the anti-Divine powers. They are always
\non the look-out for openings provided by wrong or false movements in
\nthought or act to enter and snatch away precious riches\u00e2\u0080\u0094psychological
\nand spiritual\u00e2\u0080\u0094and keep them out of the reach of humanity. They are
\nput away in the hidden depths of the reigning Ignorance.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Reversal of Night
\nand Day<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nvision lightened on the viewless heights,
A wisdom illumined from
\nthe voiceless depths:
A deeper interpretation greatened Truth,
A
\ngrand reversal of the Night and Day; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOn the summits of the being
\nof Aswapathy dawned a new vision; a fresh light broke in from the
\ninaccessible regions of the Spirit revealing a new perspective. This
\nknowledge gathered in the depths of his being and focussed itself as
\nan intelligence throwing its light on everything that came into its
\nview. As a result, all underwent a change in significance to
\nAswapathy. The truths he had cherished and followed yielded a larger
\nand deeper meaning. States of consciousness which were obscure and
\ndense before became luminous and light; the states in which he was
\nwont to live, that looked bright before, turned pale in comparison
\nwith these. Values changed, circumstances assumed different
\nsignificances and the very aim of life got enlarged.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Secret Sense<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nsecret sense awoke that could perceive
A Presence and a Greatness
\neverywhere. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThat the Divine
\nConsciousness is all-pervading, that the Divine Power is omnipotent
\nand active everywhere in the universe is a truth that is proclaimed
\nagain and again in the Scriptures. But until it is realised in actual
\nexperience it remains a belief, an intellectual conviction, a deep
\nfaith at the best. The faculty that perceives and senses this truth
\nof existence is not the mind nor the physical sense but an inner
\nconsciousness, the soul-being, that sees and feels concretely the
\nPresence and the Might of the Divine in the universe, mahim\u00c4\u0081nam
\nasya. This deeper awareness comes to the fore.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Body of God<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nuniverse was not now this senseless whirl
Borne round inert on an
\nimmense machine;
It cast away its grandiose lifeless front,
A
\nmechanism no more or work of Chance,
But a living movement of the
\nbody of God. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWith the awakening of the
\nsoul-faculties that seize the truth behind all appearances, the very
\ncharacter of the universe around changes its colour to the perceiving
\neye. Its look of a mechanical whirligig operated by a great material
\nForce or of an inert mass of Matter with bubbles of life and mind
\nenergies on its surface or of a fortuitous product of a stupendous
\nchance with no real significance, disappears and it reveals itself as
\na vibrant movement of the Spirit, an embodiment of the Divine. It is
\nHe who is aboard\u00e2\u0080\u0094sa paryag\u00c4\u0081t.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Formless and Form<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nformless Everlasting moved in it
Seeking its own perfect form in
\nsouls and things. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThat is the purpose of this
\nmanifestation. The Eternal in itself has no form; it is above all
\nform. But on that account it is not incapable of assuming a form. In
\nfact, it is the Formless wanting to express itself in a perfect Form
\nthat is the meaning of this creation. Forms are being evolved and
\ndeveloped to house greater and greater concentrations of the Formless
\nSpirit, so that the full figure of the Soul finds its just embodiment
\nin each Form.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Labour of a
\nGodhead’s Birth (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nthe struggle and upheaval of the world
He saw the labour of a
\ngodhead\u00e2\u0080\u0099s birth: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis world is the scene of
\nclash and strife, struggle for existence and effort for
\nself-affirmation and self-aggrandisement. Everywhere there is
\ndisharmony and conflict of wills, thoughts, desires and passions.
\nThat is so because this is a field for the working out of
\npossibilities. Each possibility is given the scope to effectuate
\nitself. Behind all of them, however, is the Will of the Divine
\nseeking to manifest here its own Truth through the working of all
\nforces and possibilities. A birth of the divine Harmony and Oneness
\nis in the offing.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Labour of a
\nGodhead’s Birth (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nsecret knowledge masked as Ignorance; <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhat appears as Ignorance
\nin this world is really a projecting point of a Knowledge that is
\nbehind the veil. This self-existent Knowledge is feeling its way in
\nthe maze of paths and by-paths that criss-cross the evolutionary
\ncourse of Nature. Ignorance is part-knowledge growing into the fuller
\nfigure of Knowledge. Knowledge is building itself gradually,
\nfashioning its instruments; the form in which it works out its
\nemergence is called Ignorance.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIgnorance is not falsehood,
\nwhich is really nonexistent but poses to exist. It is a formation of
\ntemporary utility, a chrysalis of the knowledge that is labouring to
\nmanifest.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Labour of a
\nGodhead’s Birth (III)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFate
\ncovered with unseen necessity
The game of chance of an omnipotent
\nWill. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhat looks like unalterable
\nfate in life is really a mode of working of the Divine Will in the
\nuniverse. In the execution of this Will there are various modes which
\nplay their part at times singly by themselves, at others in
\ncombinations. At certain levels there appears to be nothing but
\ndeterminism, at others all looks like a game of chance. So also there
\nis scope for the exercise of free-will. Behind all is the one Will of
\nthe Divine now using this means and now another. That alone is the
\ngoverning truth, all else is subsidiary, parts of its mechanism for
\nself-effectuation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Labour Of A
\nGodhead’s Birth (IV)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nAll-Blissful sat unknown within the heart;
Earth\u00e2\u0080\u0099s pains were
\nthe ransom of its prisoned delight. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSo too,. all the pains and
\nsufferings that characterize life in the world are not the final
\ntruth of things. They are obscurations, malformations and perversions
\nof the Delight at the core seeking expression in the universe. Due to
\nvarious factors like ignorance, division and ego-limitation which are
\nthrown up in the course of the earth-evolution, the Bliss that
\nunderlies each form in creation is unable to formulate itself in its
\ntrue character. It undergoes modifications at the hands of the
\nreceiving and expressing media which are yet imperfect and is
\nexperienced variously as pain or pleasure or ecstasy. Through these
\nsteps of sensational experience, life is preparing for the unimpeded
\nand unmodified flow of the secret Delight of existence.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Divine Dwarf<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\ntrudge of time changed to a splendid march;
The divine Dwarf
\ntowered to unconquered worlds,
Earth grew too narrow for his
\nvictory. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe pace of Aswapathy’s
\nlife was speeded up. Time hangs heavy only on those who do not keep
\nstep with Nature in progression, but wallow in tamas and inertia. For
\nAswapathy, whose entire being soared in aspiration, time assumed a
\nrapid movement. The entity of the divine spark that once occupied so
\nlittle a space in the heart grew to cosmic dimensions and rose from
\nthe physical Earth to envelop the worlds beyond. It claimed the whole
\nof creation for its divine empire.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe being of Aswapathy
\nextended beyond its physical moorings and spread itself in the higher
\nplanes of the divine Existence.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Opportunity<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnce
\nonly registering the heavy tread
Of a blind Power on human
\nlittleness,
Life now became a sure approach to God,
Existence
\na divine experiment
And cosmos the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s opportunity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAt the beginning\u00e2\u0080\u0094and the
\nbeginning lasts quite long\u00e2\u0080\u0094human life appears to be little more
\nthan a narrow tract constantly trampled upon by a soul-less
\nmechanical Energy. But as the consciousness awakens and gains
\ndirection, this first impression fades away and a truer picture
\nbegins to emerge. Life is gradually realised to be a pathway to the
\nDivine Truth, the high road to be trodden by the pilgrim of the
\nSpirit. Existence is seen to be not a product of a stupendous Chance
\nor a blind Force without meaning, but a purposeful Play of the divine
\nCreator. The universe is realised to be the field and the means of
\nprogress for the human soul to grow towards its godhead, for it is on
\nthe experience provided by life in this universe that the soul builds
\nitself into the full figure of the Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
This World<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nworld was a conception and a birth
Of Spirit in Matter into
\nliving forms,
And Nature bore the Immortal in her womb,
That
\nshe might climb through him to eternal life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis world has come to be
\nbecause of the self-involution of the Spirit into Matter. Out of this
\nMatter that enwombs it, the Spirit gradually unfolds itself in
\nvarious forms, inanimate and animate. This process of the
\noutflowering of life in many grades of formations is executed by
\nNature, of whom Matter is the first status, in order that through
\nthis growth and organisation of the immortal Spirit, she herself
\ncould arrive at a deathless state of life which is the acme of the
\nevolution of the manifesting Spirit.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Body (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEven
\nhis body\u00e2\u0080\u0099s subtle self within
Could raise the earthly parts
\ntowards higher things
And feel on it the breath of heavenlier
\nair. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the positive and
\nall-inclusive way of spiritual evolution, no part of the being is
\nleft out of the movement of upward progression. Even the most
\noutward, the physical parts preoccupied with earthly interests as a
\nrule, are subjected to the uplifting pressure. The very body in all
\nits materiality is not left out. The subtle being that governs it
\nfrom within breathes and embodies the higher spirit in an increasing
\nmanner, exerts its influence on the outer and grosser parts,
\ntransmits to them the vibrations of the greater consciousness and in
\nall ways urges them to grow upwards.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Body (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nUpbuoyed
\nupon winged winds of rapid joy,
Upheld to a Light it could not
\nalways hold,
It left mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s distance from the Truth supreme
\n
And lost life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s incapacity for bliss. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs the physical body opens
\nto the vibrations of the subtler being within and receives the
\ninfusion of that deeper consciousness, it feels lighter\u00e2\u0080\u0094freed as it
\nis from the load of inertia and obscurity that weigh it down
\nnormally\u00e2\u0080\u0094and currents of joy begin to course through it. It gets
\nuplifted and feels itself afloat on a sea of felicity. It turns
\nnaturally to the Light of the higher consciousness which it could not
\nreceive and hold before due to its innate tendency to sink down into
\nobscurity and sub-conscience. It ceases to follow the dictates of the
\nlimited mental reason, which always draws a line beyond which the
\nbody and the other members cannot soar. It feels and aspires on its
\nown and draws nearer to God. Finally, its limitations, due to
\ndivision in consciousness and consequent narrowing of its powers, are
\noutgrown. Its content of wakefulness is increased, and therefore its
\ncapacities. The body can now respond to and contain intensities of
\njoy, of ecstasy, without spilling them, without getting unbalanced
\nunder their impact.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
First Spiritual
\nChange<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nfirst spiritual change. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nwide God-knowledge poured down from above,
A new world-knowledge
\nbroadened from within:
His daily thoughts looked up to the True
\nand One,
His commonest doings welled from an inner Light. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs the inner spiritual
\ngrowth proceeds, certain changes are effected in the being of man.
\nOne such capital change is the replacement of the ignorance of the
\nlimited mind by a spontaneous knowledge which fills from above and
\nfrom within. Massess of knowledge flow into the being from the
\nheights of the Spirit above the mind, knowledge that pertains to the
\ninfinites of the Divine, taking in the glories of His consciousness
\nand Bliss. The knowledge that thus grows is not only of the Divine
\nabove, but equally of the universe around. An identity is felt within
\nbetween oneself and the world and this translates itself effectively
\nas knowledge of all the world and it begins to base and govern one’s
\nrelations and movements in life. All thoughts and movements in the
\nmind group themselves around the One Reality that reveals itself more
\nand more and seek to express that vision. Even the day-to-day
\nactivities proceed from this base of the knowledge of oneness that is
\ngrowing within.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Covert Universe<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAwakened
\nto the lines that Nature hides,
Attuned to her movements that
\nexceed our ken,
He grew one with a covert universe. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs one awakens to a new
\nknowledge, knowledge of God and knowledge of the world, and it
\norganises itself in one’s being, faculties that were inactive or only
\npartly active before begin to function. The range of one’s
\nconsciousness expands and a subtler sight, a subtler audition, open
\nbringing one face to face with the organisation of the subtler
\nuniverse behind the gross physical Nature. One sees the
\npre-determining movements in the subtle worlds before they form
\nthemselves in the physical. It is possible, by putting oneself in
\nharmony with the rhythms of these planes of existence, to attain
\nidentity with life there, even as one arrives at oneness with the
\nAll-life in the material world.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Guardians<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\n…
\nthe unknown Guardians of the worlds, <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis creation is an ordered
\nmanifestation of the Divine. There is a central Will, expressing the
\noriginating Truth-vision, impelling the whole movement. But also,
\nthere are special emanations from the Divine charged with specific
\ntasks in the organisation and maintenance of the emerging creation.
\nThese are the gods and goddesses, deities, Powers and Personalities
\nthat are in charge of their respective domains, on different levels
\nof existence. Each world has its own guardians entrusted by the
\nSupreme Creative Spirit with the work of building and furthering the
\nmanifestation of the particular Truth-principle that pushes for
\nexpression in that world-formula.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Occult Impulse<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis
\nwide eyes bodied viewless entities,
He saw the cosmic forces at
\ntheir work
And felt the occult impulse behind man\u00e2\u0080\u0099s will. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the subtle worlds there
\nare entities without any fixed forms busying themselves with small
\nactivities which have consequences\u00e2\u0080\u0094beneficial or otherwise\u00e2\u0080\u0094in the
\nphysical world. There are forces of various kinds, the major ones
\nhaving beings at their head, which are always active and produce
\nresults in the external universe. Men plan and move as if they were
\nwholly independent agents, whereas in much of what they think and do
\nthey are really impelled by these entities working behind the veil.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Records on Etheric
\nPage<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nrecords of the future and the past
Outlined their excerpts on the
\netheric page. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere is a subliminal layer
\nin the universal being, a very subtle expanse of ether, an inner
\nspace, cid\u00c4\u0081k\u00c4\u0081\u00c5\u009ba, where all that has been in the past in Time is
\nrecorded; also recorded is what is going on at present and even what
\nis in the process of happening and is going to be\u00e2\u0080\u0094what may be
\ncalled the memory of the future. Whatever takes place at any level of
\nexistence leaves an impress on that extension, whether all has been
\ntranslated yet into terms of earthly existence or not.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
The Human and the
\nDivine<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOne
\nand harmonious by the Maker\u00e2\u0080\u0099s skill,
The human in him paced
\nwith the divine. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe human elements in
\nman\u00e2\u0080\u0094his tendencies and activities of mind, heart, life and
\nbody,\u00e2\u0080\u0094are hard to change. They insist on their right of tenure and
\noften vitiate the workings of the higher Power in man. It is a part
\nof the yoga of fulfilment to induce them to fall into line with the
\nprogressive march of the soul-powers, and this task of ensuring their
\ncollaboration is carried out by the Yoga-shakti, the Divine Powers at
\nwork for the upliftment and transformation of the aspirant\u00e2\u0080\u0094the
\nRibhus of the Vedas.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Meaning of
\nFate-Hedged Works<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\ngenius heightened in his body\u00e2\u0080\u0099s cells
That knew the meaning of
\nhis fate-hedged works
Akin to the march of unaccomplished Powers
\n
Beyond life\u00e2\u0080\u0099s arc in spirit\u00e2\u0080\u0099s immensities. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs the consciousness of
\nAswapathy grew in height and range, the whole of his being was lit up
\nwith a spontaneous knowledge. The very cells in his body\u00e2\u0080\u0094the most
\ninsentient parts of the material encasement\u00e2\u0080\u0094became conscious, and
\nall in him was fully aware of the significance of the works that had
\ndevolved on him, however much they might appear to be subject to the
\ndecrees of fate or to Nature’s determinism. Even set-backs and
\nfailures in the normal run of the world’s activities had a different
\nconnotation to his penetrating eye, which perceived, behind all, the
\nworking of greater Powers that were active in the worlds beyond this
\nlimited physical universe.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Saviour (I)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOne
\nsoul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ambition lifted up the race;
A Power worked, but none
\nknew whence it came. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis is the way in which
\nthe Chosen work for God’s humanity. They take up the burden of all in
\na fundamental way and strive to communicate to others their own
\ngrowth in consciousness by thought, by word, by action, veiled or
\nunveiled. Each advance that they make in their own inner life has its
\nimpact on the mind and life of the general humanity. As a result, men
\nfeel an upliftment in their consciousness, in their hopes and
\naspirations, though they are not aware of the source of that
\nimpulsion. Their progress is speeded up. Men that thus relate
\nthemselves to the progression of the race and channelise their inner
\ngains into the general life-movement are the saviours of humanity.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy became one such.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Saviour (II)<\/B> <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nuniversal strengths were linked with his;
Feeling earth\u00e2\u0080\u0099s
\nsmallness with their boundless breadths,
He drew the energies
\nthat transmute an age. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIdentified as he was with
\nthe universal Being in his extended consciousness, Aswapathy came to
\nacquire a hold on the powers that are active in the universe. He
\nsummoned and directed the creative energies that proceed from the
\nheight of the Truth above and work on a cosmic scale. In that context
\nhe held, as it were, the whole earth-life in the hollow of his palm
\nand treated it to the enlarging action of the transfiguring forces so
\nas to usher in a new phase in its progression.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
Lonely And Splendid<\/B>
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nLonely
\nhis days and splendid like the sun\u00e2\u0080\u0099s. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nDue to the immense gulf
\nbetween his transformed consciousness and that of common humanity,
\nAswapathy found no meeting ground for close association or intimacy
\nwith others. He lived in an inner solitude, in communion with the
\nSpirit that was drawing him upward. And yet his very presence cast a
\nglow of radiance and warmth on the humanity that surrounded him. The
\nconsciousness that was housed in his being radiated incessantly its
\nrays of illumination and energised all that came within their range.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n



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