Here is set into motion the process of creation through the agency of the Absolute’s Force, the primordial transcendental Shakti, she being commanded by that Absolute himself, the Non-Manifest, the Avyakta, the Positive Nothing. To begin with, he can thus be called the Alone, the Single, he being without any manifestation, not even the Sachchidanandaic manifestation being there, he holding within himself all the seed potentialities, the luminous and vigorous possibilities. If these have to emerge, have to become manifest, come into world-wide play, then his own creative dynamism, his determined and untiring Force, must swing into operation. So the next step for the non-manifest Absolute is to enter into space through her. With his will-to-be, to be many, with his deep samkalpa of becoming multifold, bahusyām prajāyeyeti, he starts living in these million all. It is now entirely the working of the divine Consciousness-Force herself, it is now her sport, Chid-vilas, he yet remaining perfect and immune from all that has arisen, untouched by it. But with what intention or rationale is this whole undertaking being effected? It is with a solitary purpose of becoming many, to be in his divine measure everywhere, in every bit and moment. He thus kind of forsakes his own divinity, his lone majesty and grandeur, forsakes to claim it back multiply, in countless ways. In it there is a definite plan to lift the finite to the infinite, as much as make possible that infinite to dwell in the acceptable finite. That’s the debt which mutually binds man and the Supreme, engages them with each other for a fruitful gain. Yes, we are the sons of God and must be even as he is; we must grow divine in divine qualities, in their richness and in their multiple abundance. Grow divine—but how? This may rather look paradoxical, but then our life is a wonderful paradox with God himself for the golden key.

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