W MyaTiU EXPERIENCES

worship. But He saw again that these- were not enough,
and that Release, that highest happiness which is named
Nirvana, cannot come except from Perfect Knowledge. Then-
He evolved me from His mind, and I, appearing from some-
where, like small wavelet on the crest of ocean-billow, stood'
before Him, humble and obedient. He bade me take seat on
the northern petal of the Lotus whereon He was resting", and
then said : ^My son ! let thy mind forsake its Peace for a brief
while, and gain experience of Ignorance, Avidya, and its
consequence of restlessness/ With this behest in guise of
curse, I lost the memory of my pure stainless inner Spirit-
nature, and gave room in my mind, instead, to pain, sorrow,
disturbance, with experience of Samsara. Then Brahma said
to me : 'Ask me, my son !, the remedy for thy pains, and,
I will tell thee, so that thou wilt be unhappy nevermore.^
And I asked of Him, and was taught, and then He bade me
go, as embodiment of His knowledge, and teach the Jivas of
this Bharata Varsha who required such teaching, and were
fit to receive it by Vairagya and Vichara, dispassion and reflec-
tion. And so I sit in my preordained place while this creation •
lasts, doing the duty that was set to me.

^And as He sent me forth, so has He sent forth other
Rshis too, Sanat-kumar-a, Narada, and many others. So, when
the happy times of Krta-yuga passed away, the times when
all were virtuous, and each knew and discharged his duties to'
all others, then these Rshis made partition of the common
earth into many lands and many countries, and appointed
kings to rule in them, that ordinances might be well observed,.
and laws and limits fail not for the want of persons to enforce
them. And many sciences, of Smrfci and of Yajna(1), and of
other things, for the achieving of Dharma and of Kgma^

(1) Laws and Sacrifices.