“SWIFTER THAN MIND” Kena and other Upanishad.
The world is a cyclic movement (sa ˙ms¯ara) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are realin consciousness,but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite realin comparisonwithitself, or realwith a different kind of reality. But mental consciousness is not the Power that creates the universe. That is something infinitely more puissant, swift and unfettered than the mind. It is the pure omnipotent selfawareness of the Absolute unbound by any law of the relativity. The laws of the relativity, upheld by the gods, are Its temporary creations. Their apparent eternity is only the duration, immeasurable to us, of the world which they govern. They are laws regularising motion and change, not laws binding the Lord of the movement. The gods, therefore, are describedas continually running in their course. But the Lord is free and unaffected by His own movement.
The world is a cyclic movement (sa ˙ms¯ara) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are realin consciousness,but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite realin comparisonwithitself, or realwith a different kind of reality. But mental consciousness is not the Power that creates the universe. That is something infinitely more puissant, swift and unfettered than the mind. It is the pure omnipotent selfawareness of the Absolute unbound by any law of the relativity. The laws of the relativity, upheld by the gods, are Its temporary creations. Their apparent eternity is only the duration, immeasurable to us, of the world which they govern. They are laws regularising motion and change, not laws binding the Lord of the movement. The gods, therefore, are describedas continually running in their course. But the Lord is free and unaffected by His own movement.
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