As Aswapati stood on the
high peak of existence, still higher peaks came into his ken. For the vistas of
the Infinite are endless and what man achieves by way of ascent is only a
promise of greater conquests in store. Aswapati came to see and realise that
the present state of limitation and death is not the permanent condition of
earth-life. States of freedom and immortality await discovery by man. Whether
he is conscious of it or not, his being steadily grows towards them in the
stress of the evolutionary labour to which he is subject. At times man is aware
of this growth, at times he experiences in himself descents of supernal Light, Power,
Peace and sees his own little ego-bound life dissolve.
Man grows conscious of a
vaster Self in himself which is not involved in the life-movement, but watches all
from its base behind the veil of nature in ignorance.
There is the key to the
riddle of existence, there the fount of delight without which none could live.
Without this perception,
world-existence appears to lack meaning and direction; no definite knowledge of
its character is possible. Only the movement is seen to be real, a movement
carried on by an incessant urge from within. And yet, the earth does not feel
left alone in her labour. She senses and becomes aware of mighty Puissances in
the Cosmos helping and drawing her upward by their very presence and their
irresistible action. The earth-mind seeks and aspires for the Verities of
Knowledge, Power and Bliss which are in the keeping of these Gods above,
however much they might appear to be out of reach to the terrestrial spirit
toiling below.
In fact it is the action
of these Powers from behind the surfaces of life that determines the course of outer
circumstances. Man is not normally aware of this inner working in himself and
in the Cosmos. But the impulsion from within and the lead from above goes on
till the purpose of the earth-movement is achieved, till the earth-life flowers
into a divine existence.
The present state of the
evolving Consciousness on earth is intermediate; it marks a stage that has moved
.away from the original Inconscience at the base but is yet far from the
plenary Superconscience at the summit of existence into which it is to grow.
Consequently all the
operations of this Consciousness are imperfect. However there is a constant
pressure on this Consciousness to develop and expand from both the ends of
existence—Material Nature and Spiritual Being.
Through all the
vicissitudes of lives, there is a Light that leads, a Might that pulls, a Bliss
that sustains.
The Will of the creative
Godhead works at each moment of Time, at every level of world-existence towards
the destined manifestation of the Divine in the terrestrial universe.