CHAPTER XX The Philosophy of Rebirth An end have these bodies of an embodied soul that is eternal;... it is not born nor dies nor is it that having been it will not be again. It is unborn, ancient, everlasting; it is not slain with the slaying of the body. As a man casts from him his worn-out garments and takes others that are new, so the embodied being casts off its bodies and joins itself to others that are new. Certain is the death of that which is born and certain is the birth of that which dies... Gita.¹ There is a birth and growth of the self. According to his actions the embodied being assumes forms suc

CHAPTER XXVI The Ascent towards Supermind Masters of the Truth-Light who make the Truth grow by the Truth. Rig Veda.1 Three powers of Speech that carry the Light in their front ... a triple house of peace, a triple way of the Light. Rig Veda.2 Four other worlds of beauty he creates as his form when he has grown by the Truths. Rig Veda.3 He is born a seer with the mind of discernment; an offspring of the Truth, a birth set within in the secrecy, half arisen into manifestation. Rig Veda.4 Possessed of a vast inspired wisdom, creators of the Light, con- scious all-knowers, growing in the Trut

CHAPTER XXII Rebirth and Other Worlds; Karma, the Soul and Immortality He passes in his departure from this world to the physical Self; he passes to the Self of life; he passes to the Self of mind; he passes to the Self of knowledge; he passes to the Self of bliss; he moves through these worlds at will. Taittiriya Upanishad.1 They say indeed that the conscious being is made of desire. But of whatsoever desire he comes to be, he comes to be of that will, and of whatever will he comes to be, he does that action, and whatever his action, to (the result of) that he reaches.... Adhered to by his Karma, 2 he g

-05_The Progress to Knowledge — God, Man and Nature .htm CHAPTER XVII The Progress to Knowledge — God, Man and Nature Thou art That, O Swetaketu. Chhandogya Upanishad.¹ The living being is none else than the Brahman, the whole world is the Brahman. Vivekachudamani.² My supreme Nature has become the living being and this world is upheld by it... all beings have this for their source of birth. Gita.³ . Thou art man and woman, boy and girl; old and worn thou walkest bent over a staff; thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet-eyed... Swetaswatara Upanishad.4 4IV. 3, 4 This whole world is filled with beings who are His member

CHAPTER XXIII Man and the Evolution The one Godhead secret in all beings, all-pervading, the inner Self of all, presiding over all action, witness, conscious knower and absolute... the One in control over the many who are passive to Nature, fashions one seed in many ways. Swetaswatara Upanishad.1 The Godhead moves in this Field modifying each web of things separately in many ways.... One, he presides over all wombs and natures; himself the womb of all, he is that which brings to ripe- ness the nature of the being and he gives to all who have to be matured their result of development and appoints all qualities to their

CHAPTER XXV The Triple Transformation A conscious being is the centre of the self, who rules past and future; he is like a fire without smoke.... That, one must disengage with patience from one's own body. Katha Upanishad.1 An intuition in the heart sees that truth. Rig Veda. 2 I abide in the spiritual being and from there destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the shining lamp of knowledge. Gita. 3 These rays are directed downwards, their foundation is above: may they be set deep within us.... O Varuna, here awake, make wide thy reign; may we abide in the law of thy workings and be blameless befor