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consciousness, able to merge in super-consciousness 

 and to again limit Himself to self-consciousness. 



What, then, is Maya? Maya is prepared in 

 every case by the merging in Ishvara of the whole 

 of the universe which is come to its ending. As 

 one loka rolls up and merges in the one above it, 

 all forms in the loka thus merged disappear, but 

 the consciousness that ensouled those forms does not 

 vanish ; a modification of consciousness remains, a 

 modification expressing itself by a vibratory power 

 not a vibration, but a power to vibrate in a 

 particular way ; and though the form vanishes as 

 the loka is merged in the one above it because the 

 matter disappears, being disintegrated into finer 

 matter in consciousness there remains the power 

 to vibrate in the way in which it had vibrated in the 

 grosser matter, and power persists although the forms 

 caused by such vibrations disappear, for lack of 

 material sufficiently coarse to respond to such vibra- 

 tions. As one region passes into the next, this process 

 is repeated over and over and over again, and loka 

 after loka vanishes. The forms are gone, the vibra- 

 tions are gone, only the modifications in conscious- 

 ness capable of giving rise to similar vibrations 

 remain until finally, when Ishvara whose con- 

 sciousness was the one consciousness in the universe, 

 whose life was the one life, who supported every 



