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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga526
It is well for you also to bear in mind the Universality of Life. All of the
Universe is alive, vibrating and pulsating with life and energy and motion.
There is nothing dead in the Universe. Life is everywhere, and always
accompanied by intelligence. There is no such thing as a dead, unintelligent
Universe. Instead of being atoms of Life floating in a sea of death, we are
atoms of Life surrounded by an ocean of Life, pulsating, moving, thinking,
living. Every atom of what we call Matter is alive. It has energy or force with
it, and is always accompanied by intelligence and life. Look around us as we
will—at the animal world—at the plant world—yes, even at the world of
minerals, and we see life, life, life—all alive and having intelligence. When
we are able to bring this conception into the realm of actual consciousness—
when we are able not only to intellectually accept this fact, but to even go
still further and feel and be conscious of this Universal Life on all sides, then
are we well on the road to attaining the Cosmic Consciousness.
But all these things are but steps leading up to the realization of the
Oneness in Spirit, on the part of the Individual. Gradually there dawns upon
him the realization that there is a Unity in the manifestation of Spirit from
the Absolute—a unity with itself, and a Union with the Absolute. All this
manifestation of Spirit on the part of the Absolute—all this begetting of
Divine Children—was in the nature of a single act rather than as a series of
acts, if we may be permitted to speak of the manifestation as an act. Each
Ego is a Centre of Consciousness in this great ocean of Spirit—each is a
Real Self, apparently separate from the others and from its source, but the
separation is only apparent in both cases, for there is the closest bond of
union between the Egos of the Universe of Universes—each is knit to the
other in the closest bond of union, and each is still attached to the Absolute
by spiritual filaments, if we may use the term. In time we shall grow more
conscious of this mutual relationship, as the sheaths are outgrown and cast
aside, and in the end we will be withdrawn into the Absolute—shall return
to the Mansion of the Father.