Chapter V   The Destiny of the Individual     By the Ignorance they cross beyond Death and by the Knowledge enjoy Immortality. . . . By the Non-Birth they cross beyond Death and by the Birth enjoy Immortality. Isha Upanishad.1     AN OMNIPRESENT Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience t

Chapter XVIII   The Evolutionary Process  — Ascent and Integration   As he mounts from peak to peak, . . . Indra makes him conscious of that goal of his movement.  Rig Veda.1   A son of the two Mothers, he attains to kingship in his discoveries of knowledge, he moves on the summit, he dwells in his high foundation. Rig Veda.2   I have arisen from earth to the mid-world, I have arisen from the mid-world to heaven, from the level of the firmament of heaven I have gone to the Sun-world, the Light.3 Yajur Veda.4   IT IS now possible and necessary, since we have formed a sufficiently c

Chapter XXVI   The Ascending Series of Substance   There is a self that is of the essence of Matter ―there is another inner self of Life that fills the other ―there is another inner self of Mind ―there is another inner self of Truth-Knowledge ―there is another inner self of Bliss. Taittiriya Upanishad.1   They climb Indra like a ladder. As one mounts peak after peak, there becomes clear the much that has still to be done. Indra brings consciousness of That as the goal.   Like a hawk, a kite He settles on the Vessel and upbears it; in Hi

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