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The Sixth Lesson: Within the Mind of the One.795
there is no Activity anywhere. On the contrary, there is never a cessation of
Activity on the part of the Absolute. While it is Creative Night in one Universe,
or System of Universes, there is intense activity of Mid-Day in others. When
we say “The Universe” we mean the Universe of Solar Systems—millions of
such systems—that compose the particular universe of which we have any
knowledge. The highest teachings tell us that this Universe is but one of a
System of Universes, millions in number—and that this System is but one, in
a higher System, and so on and on, to infinity. As one Hindu Sage hath said:
“Well do we know that the Absolute is constantly creating Universes in Its
Infinite Mind—and constantly destroying them—and, though millions upon
millions of æons intervene between creation and destruction, yet doth it
seem less than the twinkle of an eye to The Absolute One.”
And so the “Day and Night of Brahm” means only the statement of the
alternating periods of Activity and Inactivity in some one particular Universe,
amidst the Infinite Universality. You will find a mention of these periods of
Activity and Inactivity in the “Bhagavad Gita,” the great Hindu epic. The
following quotations relate to the edition published by the Yogi Publication
Society, which was compiled and adapted by the writer of these lessons. In
that edition of the “Bhagavad Gita” you will find these words attributed to
Krishna, the Absolute One in human incarnation:
“The worlds and universes—yea, even the world of Brahm, a single day of which is
like unto a thousand Yugas (four billion years of the earth), and his night as much—
these worlds must come and go.…The Days of Brahm are succeeded by the Nights of
Brahm. In these Brahmic Days all things emerge from invisibility, and become visible.
And, on the coming of the Brahmic Night, all visible things again melt into invisibility.
The Universe having once existed, melteth away; and lo! is again re-created.”
And, in the same edition, we find these words, attributed to the same
speaker: