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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga754
In the Third Lesson, we went still further into this phase of the general
subject, and showed you that the Creative Will—that active principle of
the Universal Life—was ever at work, building up new forms, shapes and
combinations, and then tearing them down for the purpose of rebuilding
the material into new forms, shapes, and combinations. The Creative Will is
ever at work in its threefold function of creating, preserving and destroying
forms—the change, however, being merely in the shape and form or
combination, the real substance remaining unchanged in its inner aspect,
notwithstanding the countless apparent changes in its objective forms. Like
the great ocean the depths of which remain calm and undisturbed, and
the real nature of which is unchanged in spite of the waves, and billows of
surface manifestation, so does the great ocean of the Universal Life remain
unchanged and unaltered in spite of the constant play of the Creative Will
upon the surface. In the same lesson we gave you many examples of the
Will in action—of its wondrous workings in the various forms of life and
activity—all of which went to show you that the One Power was at work
everywhere and at all times.
In our next lesson—the Fifth Lesson—we shall endeavor to make plain
to you the highest teachings of the Yogi Philosophy regarding the One
Reality and the Many Manifestations—the One and the Many—how the
One apparently becomes Many—that great question and problem which
lies at the bottom of the well of truth. In that lesson we shall present for your
consideration some fundamental and startling truths, but before we reach
that point in our teachings, we must fasten upon your mind the basic truth
that all the various manifestations of Life that we see on all hands in the
Universe are but forms of manifestation of One Universal Life which is itself
an emanation of the Absolute.
Speaking generally, we would say to you that the emanation of the
Absolute is in the form of a grand manifestation of One Universal Life,
in which the various apparent separate forms of Life are but centers of
Energy or Consciousness, the separation being more apparent than real,