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CREATION Everything begins with vibration or movement, the original kshobha or disturbance. If there is no movement of the conscious being, it can only know its own pure static existence. Without vibration or movement of being in consciousness there can be no act of knowledge and therefore no sense; without vibration or movement of being in force there can be no object of sense. 55 Creation is not a making of something out of nothing or one thing out of another, but a self-projection of Brahman. Creation is not a making but a becoming in terms of conscious existence.56 Spirit exists from the beginning and was before any beginning, infinite and sempiternal, but Matter also is an eternal entity.57 Spirit has concealed itself in inconscient matter.58 Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would be only an insect crawling among other ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.59
Page-44 This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; [...] in this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence.60 |