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\n\tChapter Three <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\tBrahman
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\n\tThe Impersonal Brahman <\/font>
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You speak of the Impersonal as if it were a Person. The Impersonal is not He, it is It. How can an It guide or help? The Impersonal Brahman is inactive, aloof, indifferent, not concerned
\nwith what happens in the universe. Buddha’s Permanent is the same. <\/p>\n

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There is no thought in the pure Impersonal, it is silent
\n\t\u2014but it
\nis true that divine Truth can manifest in the background of the silence. This is of course the truth of things up to the Overmind. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Inactive
\n\tBrahman and the Active Brahman <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

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The inactive Brahman and the active personal Brahman are two
\naspects of the Divine. In the Supreme these are fused into each other, not separate. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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There are two aspects of the Divine
\n\t\u2014the static Peace and the
\ndynamic Force. In the end they unite. <\/p>\n

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* <\/p>\n

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It is in the inactive Brahman that one merges if one seeks laya or Moksha. One can dwell in the Personal Divine but does not
\nmerge in Him. As for the Supreme, He holds in Himself the world-existence and it is in His Consciousness that it moves;
\nso by entering into the Supreme one rises above subjection to Nature, but one does not disappear from all consciousness of
\nworld-existence. <\/p>\n

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The immutable Brahman is only a base for the transcendent
\naction which comes down into its peace and silence and fills it with power also and Ananda and the light of knowledge. <\/p>\n

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\n\tSpirit and Life <\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

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In the sphere of the Spirit are only the eternal truths
\n\t\u2014all is
\neternally itself there, there is no development, nothing unrealised or striving to be fulfilled. There are no such things as possibilities
\ntherefore. <\/p>\n

In life on the other hand all is a play of possibilities
\n\t\u2014nothing is realised, all is seeking to be realised \u2014or if not yet seeking, then waiting behind the veil for that. Nothing is realised in its
\nhighest form, in its truth or completeness, but all is possible. All these possibilities are derived from the truths above
\n\t\u2014e.g., the
\npossibility of knowledge, the possibility of love, the possibility of joy etc. <\/p>\n

Intellect, will etc. are intermediaries which try to catch something of the hidden higher truths and bring them into life or else
\nraise life to them \u2014so that the possibilities of life here may become the complete realities that are already there above.
\n   <\/p>\n

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