Chapter VIII   Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance   Some speak of the self-nature of things, others say that it is Time. Swetaswatara Upanishad.1   Two are the forms of Brahman, Time and the Timeless. Maitri Upanishad.2   Night was born and from Night the flowing ocean of being and on the ocean Time was born to whom is subjected every seeing creature Rig Veda.3 .   Memory is greater: without memory men could think and know nothing. . . . As far as goes the movement of Memory, there he ranges at will. Chhandogya Upanishad.4   This is he who is that which sees, touches, hears,

Chapter XXI   The Ascent of Life   Let the path of the Word lead to the godheads, towards the Waters by the working of the Mind. . . .1 O Flame, thou goest to the ocean of Heaven, towards the gods; thou makest to meet together the godheads of the planes, the waters that are in the realm of light above the sun and the waters that abide below.2   The Lord of Delight conquers the third status; he maintains and governs according to the Soul of universality; like a hawk, a kite he settles on the vessel and uplifts it, a finder of the Light he manifests the fourth status and cleaves to the ocean tha

Chapter XIII   The Divine Maya   By the Names of the Lord and hers they shaped and measured the force of the Mother of Light; wearing might after might of that Force as a robe the lords of Maya shaped out Form in this Being.   The Masters of Maya shaped all by His Maya; the Fathers who have divine vision set Him within as a child that is to be born. Rig Veda.1     EXISTENCE that acts and creates by the power and from the pure delight of its conscious being is the reality that we are, the self of all our modes and moods, the cause, object and goal of al

Chapter XXVII   The Sevenfold Chord of Being   In the ignorance of my mind, I ask of these steps of the Gods that are set within. The all-knowing Gods have taken the Infant of a year and they have woven about him seven threads to make this weft. Rig Veda.1   WE HAVE now, by our scrutiny of the seven great terms of existence which the ancient seers fixed on as the foundation and sevenfold mode of all cosmic existence, discerned the gradations of evolution and involution and arrived at the basis of knowledge towards which we were striving. We have laid down that the origin, the continent, t

Chapter XXIII   The Double Soul in Man   The Purusha, the inner Self, no larger than the size of a man's  thumb. Katha Upanishad.1 Swetaswatara Upanishad.2   He who knows this Self who is the eater of the honey of existence and the lord of what is and shall be, has thenceforward no shrinking. Katha Upanishad.3   Whence shall he have grief, how shall he be deluded who sees everywhere the Oneness? Isha Upanishad.4   He who has found the bliss of the Eternal has no fear from any quarter.

Chapter VII   The Ego and the Dualities     The soul seated on the same tree of Nature is absorbed and deluded and has sorrow because it is not the Lord, but when it sees and is in union with that other self and greatness of it which is the Lord, then sorrow passes away from it. Swetaswatara Upanishad.1     IF ALL is in truth Sachchidananda, death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations, positive in practical effect, negative in essence, of a distorting consciousness which has fallen from the total and unifying knowledge of itself into some erro