Aswapati saw innumerable creatures, spirits, imps, goblins, genii, all kinds of lower vital beings. It is these beings who act upon the inner beings of man and to turn them round and round in the inescapable circle of ignorance. Everything here on earth is enacted under their influence. The twilight of human nature is the place they lurk in and they speak to the human being "with the voices of the Night". It is thus that these forces utilise human beings for their purpose and build up structures or constructions which they force upon men leading in the end to blind ignorance. This happens because "reason is used by an irrational Force". Even though man is born on the earth and is of the earth, still, "this earth alone is not our teacher and nurse"—because, "the powers of all the" worlds have entrance here". Man is thus very powerfully influenced and moulded not only by the earth and its forces but by life and vital forces that are subtle and by mental forces and even by forces beyond mind. This fate lasts so long as man's soul does not attain its freedom. When man awakes to his free Self, then ends this dream of nether life.

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