Act V   Scene 1   The sea-shore. Andromeda chained to the cliff.   ANDROMEDA O iron-throated vast unpitying sea, Whose borders touch my feet with their cold kisses As if they loved me! yet from thee my death Will soon arise, and in some monstrous form To tear my heart with horror before my body. I am alone with thee on this wild beach Filled with the echo of thy roaring waters. My fellowmen have cast me out: they have bound me Upon thy rocks to die. These cruel chains Weary the arms they keep held stiffly out Against the rough cold jagged stones. My bosom Hardly contains its thronging sobs; my heart Is torn

Chapter IX   The Pure Existent     One indivisible that is pure existence. Chhandogya Upanishad.1     WHEN we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and look upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the

Chapter XXII   The Problem of Life   This it is that is called the universal Life. Taittiriya Upanishad.1   The Lord is seated in the heart of all beings turning all beings  mounted upon a machine by his Maya. Gita.2   He who knows the Truth, the Knowledge, the Infinity that is Brahman shall enjoy with the all-wise Brahman all objects of  desire. Taittiriya Upanishad.3   LIFE IS, we have seen, the putting forth, under certain cosmic circumstances, of a Conscious-Force which is in its own nature inf

Chapter VIII   The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge     This secret Self in all beings is not apparent, but it is seen by means of the supreme reason, the subtle, by those who have the subtle vision. Katha Upanishad.1   BUT WHAT then is the working of this Sachchidananda in the world and by what process of things are the relations between itself and the ego which figures it first formed, then led to their consummation? For on those relations and on the process they follow depend the whole philosophy and practice of a divine life for man. We arrive

Chapter XVI   The Triple Status of Supermind     My self is that which supports all beings and constitutes their existence. . . . I am the self which abides within all beings. Gita.1   Three powers of Light uphold three luminous worlds divine. Rig Veda.2     BEFORE we pass to this easier understanding of the world we inhabit from the standpoint of an apprehending Truth-consciousness which sees things as would an individual soul freed from the limitations of mentality and admitted to participate in the action of the Divine