Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... IX. THE SPIRIT. This is the Anandamaya Koslia, literally the coil of bliss of the Vedantins. With the power of psychic perception, the soul knows the existence of this entity, but in the present stage of human development it has hardly made its presence directly felt in the human constitution. The characteristic difference between the soul and the spirit is the absence in the latter of the It is now the dawn of the day of evolution. It is the first setting-in of the positive current of the great breath. It is the first state of cosmic activity after the night of Mahapralaya. As we have seen, the breath in every state of existence has three differentiations--the positive, the negative, and the Sushumna. The Sushumna is pregnant with either of the two remaining states. This is the state which is described in the Parameshthi Sukta of the Rig Veda as neither Sat (positive) nor Asat (negative). This is the primary state of Parabrahman, in which the whole universe lies hidden like a tree in the seed. As billows rise and lose themselves in an ocean, the two states of evolution and involution take their rise in this state, and are in due time lost in the same. What is Prakriti itself in this state of potential omnipotence? The phenomena of Prakriti owe their origin and existence to the modifications of the great breath. When that great breath is in the state of Sushumna, can we not say that Prakriti itself is held in that state by Sushumna? It is in fact Parabrahman that is all in all. Prakriti is only the shadow of that substance, and like a shadow it follows the modifications of the breath. The first modification of the great breath is the setting in of the evolutionary (positive) current. In this state Prakriti modifies itself into the ethers...
