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The bubble born of water floats in it and bursts on it to become one with it. All the visible objective worlds are like the bubbles emanating from the vast Ocean of Divinity, Brahmam. They are on the waters and are sustained by water. How else can they arise and exist? Finally, they merge and disappear in water itself. For their origination, subsistence and mergence, they depend on water only. Water is one, bubbles are plentiful. Water is real, bubbles are appearances. Water is the basis: bubbles are delusive forms of the same imposed on it.

One is struck with wonder at this wonderful manifestation. But, in the ancient eras of time and in the far corners of space, from the inert unconscious tangle of Nature, the mystery of life emerged and proliferated into men and god-men. This is a fact known to all and cognisable by all. But, can the low be posited as the cause of the high? The low can only be the cause of the low. We can say that the inert can at best be the cause of the mind, which also is part of the body complex, but only the Divine Will can be the cause of all creation, having the five features already mentioned. How else the complex mind arose and got established no one can describe.

The theory is that all events in the Universe follow certain laws and norms. It is not always self-evident but physics is tending to prove that it is quite feasible. The very first Sutra indicates the Universal Supreme called Brahmam. This second Sutra describes the same Brahmam in another form, through another facet. The first lays down the Truth, Wisdom and Freedom (Satyam, Jnanam and Swatantra). The second Sutra lays down the creative aspect of Brahmam, and declares that the aspect cannot be limited to this particular cosmos.

Each has its own Dharma or innate specialty or individuality or love characteristics. This rule applies equally to blades of grass and the stars. The cosmos is not one continuous flux. It is progressing persistently towards achieving a totality in the qualities and circumstances. Man too can transform himself through self-effort and discrimination from his present status. The moral forces permitting the cosmos will certainly promote our achievement. But, man is too immersed in the all-pervasive delusion to take advantage of these and elevate himself. He is not aware of the path of peace and harmony in the world. He is not able to hold on to the good and avoid the bad. He cannot establish himself in the Dharmic Path.

"That" from which the birth, etc, of This". THAT from which has emanated the manifest Cosmos, with its moving and unmoving entities, "That" which prompts, promotes and fosters their progress, "That" in which, ultimately, they merge - know THAT as Brahmam. Next