26 Evolution of Life and Form. 



form, who made the possibility of every separated 

 existence gathers up His universe into Himself 

 ere He merges Himself in the ONE, everything has 

 vanished that we know as form, nothing remains 

 save the centre of consciousness. There remains 

 in Ishvara the power of vibrating in particular 

 fashions, resulting from the evolution of His uni- 

 verse, in endless multiplicity of vibrations ; when 

 He merges Himself in the One Existence all has 

 vanished as form, but powers remain in these subtle 

 modifications, preserved in that unchangeable 

 centre in the mightiness of the One Life. Is that 

 only a dream ? 



There was a great teacher, Vasishtha. He taught 

 Rama, as you will remember, and in the record 

 of his teaching there are hints on some of the 

 mysteries of life. If you keep what I have now 

 said in mind, if I have succeeded by the clumsy 

 words which are all that the human tongue can 

 utter on these great problems, in clarifying at all 

 your thoughts, then just listen to that same thought 

 as expressed by Suryadeva, when he was speaking 

 of the same thing the ending and the new 

 beginning of a universe. We have only to add 

 to what I have already said, that when Ishvara 

 arises in order that a new universe may be formed, 

 He throws His life into these modifications that had 



