Aswapati tried to find the cause of the failure of this higher vital world. He peered into the darkness that was below and tried to locate there the cause, if any. Suddenly, the veil was rent that covers Nature's depths, and there he saw the fount of the world's lasting pain and the mouth of the black pit of Ignorance. It was the region of the Nescience where everything present in life is turned into its opposite, turned with almost an equal imperativeness. For instance, there was a Power, there was a Presence and there was what might be called Doom which was the opposite of Destiny. There was a mind also which, instead of serving truth, corrupted it with her own formula and everything there was consequently overcast with error, grief and pain. Due to this universal presence of evil and falsehood everything bore black fruit of suffering, of death and bale. Seeds of evil and falsehood seemed to be scattered everywhere. Here even though he saw some brighter side of life, some truth, some love, some friendship and beauty, he also could not help seeing the anguish and fear and lust evil.

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