Essays on the Gita

God in Power of Becoming 361if they were given pell-mell, without any order, but still thereis a certain principle in the enumeration, which, if it is oncedisengaged, can lead by a helpful guidance to the inner sense ofthe idea and its consequences. The chapter has been called theVibhuti-Yoga, — an indispensable yoga. For while we must identifyourselves impartially with the universal divine Becoming inall its extension, its good and evil, perfection and imperfection,light and darkness, we must at the same time realise that there isan ascending evolutionary power in it, an increasing intensity ofits revelation in things, a hierarchic secret something that carriesus upward from the first concealing appearances through higherand higher forms towards the large ideal nature of the universalGodhead.This summary enumeration begins with a statement of theprimal principle that underlies all the power of this manifestationin the universe. It is this that in every being and object Goddwells concealed and discoverable; he is housed as in a crypt inthe mind and heart of every thing and creature, an inner self inthe core of its subjective and its objective becoming, one whois the beginning and middle and end of all that is, has been orwill be. For it is this inner divine Self hidden from the mindand heart which he inhabits, this luminous Inhabitant concealedfrom the view of the soul in Nature which he has put forthinto Nature as his representative, who is all the time evolvingthe mutations of our personality in Time and our sensationalexistence in Space, — Time and Space that are the conceptualmovement and extension of the Godhead in us. All is this selfseeingSoul, this self-representing Spirit. For ever from withinall beings, from within all conscient and inconscient existences,this All-conscient develops his manifested self in quality andpower, develops it in the forms of objects, in the instrumentsof our subjectivity, in knowledge and word and thinking, in thecreations of the mind and in the passion and actions of the doer,in the measures of Time, in cosmic powers and godheads and inthe forces of Nature, in plant life, in animal life, in human andsuperhuman beings.If we look at things with this eye of vision unblinded by