Page 21 - Imperience Beckons

undergone during his march towards grossness. Now he is so intensely engrossed in it that it defies all efforts to get out of that state of complete grossness. Later on it took another turn. He came in touch with the world around and was influenced by the dealings and associations of others. The environment caused its own effect. Desires began to creep in and attract his attention. His entire existence being coloured thus, he assumed a changed form and began to attract material for the same. What was he, and what has he now quite out of view? Not only this but the elements thus introduced went on growing stronger by the effect of his own thoughts. Consequently their action grew still more powerful and intensified, with the result that they began to draw in greater power from the forces of nature. Just as a tiny spring composed of a few drops of water trickling down from a mountain crevice flows down in the form of a petty rivulet, and goes on swelling by the additional supply of water from the melting snow or from tributary stream till it develops into a huge sea of water, so does a baby, when the things introduced into him at the primary stage have attained full development, attain maturity. The origin of the ripples present in the water is nothing but the result of the Karmas (actions) which had helped him during the course to acquire its final form. These are the waves which are lastly considered to be the waves of joy often misinterpreted as 'Anandam'. In a man's life this phase comes during the period of youth when he is sufficiently coated with contaminations. When a man comes into this form which is the result of all the actions, his state is similar to that of the ocean.
An important point in this connection is that a thing when observed continuously begins to fade away from sight, and only its reflection remains, which to finally disappears. The reason is that matter possesses the capacity of seeing matter alone. The capacity to see beyond lies only in the finer power which is beyond it. This goes on further in the same way till the very power of seeing becomes extinct. But still something remains even beyond it which comes up in the form of consciousness. Further on, this too becomes extinct and even the feeling of existence fades away. That which follows then is the state of negation the very Reality itself. In fact it is very difficult to understand it unless one actually reaches the point, nay rather he submerged in that state. But even this negation is something existent, for if it is not why do we call it so? Proceed on still further!
The currents which descended from the origin began to grow thicker and grosser. Why? It is a very difficult point to explain. When a man jumps down from a great height he becomes almost half dead during the course of the fall. The reason is generally attributed to the gravitation of the earth. But I may say that