NO.10  THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER X CONSCIOUS FORCE     They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working.     Swetacwatarea Upanishad.     This is he that is awake in those who sleep.     All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience. In the ancient images by which human thought attempted to make this origin and law of being intelligible and real to itself, this infinite existence of Force was figured as a sea, initially at rest and therefore

 NO.1.   The Life Divine   BOOK I THE AFFIRMATIONS OF VEDANTA         She follows to the goal of those that arc passing on beyond, she is the firsts in the eternal succession of the dawns that are coming,— Usher widens bringing out that which lives, awakening someone who was dead...What is her scope when she harmonies with the dawns that shone out before and those that now must shine ? She desires the ancient mornings and fulfils their light ; projecting forwards her illumination she enters into communion with the rest that are to come. Kitsap Angoras. Rig Veda. CHAPTER I THE HUMAN ASPIRATION        Threefold are those su

No. 12 THE LIFE DIVINE CHAPTER XII DELIGHT OF EXISTENCE: THE SOLUTION.     The name of That is the Delight; as the Delight we must worship and seek after It. Kena Upanishad.     In this conception of an inalienable underlying delight of existence of which all outward or surface sensations are a positive, negative or neutral play, waves and foaming of that infinite deep, we arrive at the true solution of the problem we are examining. The self of things is an infinite indivisible existence; of that existence the essential nature or power is an infinite imperishable force of self-conscious being ; and of that self-consciousness the essential natur

NO.8    THE LIFE DIVINE 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     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 at the conception and at the knowledge of a divine existence by exceeding the ev