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to limitations, thinking", 'I am this piece of earth, this mass
of matter, or this, or this.5

'But tell me, Master !, how may there be any birth from
Vacancy alone ? How are born, or are not born, earth, and air,
and fire, and all the others ?' So Death asked of Yama, and he
made answer :

'He is not born at all, never was He unborn, nor ever
shall cease to be (1). All possible ;" things are but parts of
His Consciousness, downwards from that Mount of Lig"ht(2),
which to our sig-ht arises first after the sleep of Maha-pralaya.(3)
And as a part may not overpower the whole, so canst thou
not conquer Him.'

Mrtyu heard this with surprise, and, smileless, went to
bis abode."

Rama said : "It seems to me, 0 Sag'e !; that thou hast
been describing' unto me Brahma Himself, the Great Father of
all things, the Cosmic Mind, the Self-born and the Unborn."

"Truly so, 0 Rama t, and about Him Mrtyu disputed
with Yama at the end of a Manvantara, and was thus
instructed by him.

^As the castle in the air, as theicity of dream-fancies, so
verily is all the Seen. . The Seer and the Seen have no true
being of their own, apart from the being of Param-afma,
Imagination is the Mind and the Mind is Brahma,"

CHAPTER III
Recurring Questions

Rama asked ; ^Tell me clearly, 0 Sag'e !, what the form
is of the Mind from which these chains of worlds are spun,"

(1) Ha is but the manifested Mind of the Logos out-breat had and
in-breathed but never beginning nor oeasing to be.

- (2) The Fire-mist, nebxiloTis-mass of radiant matter, the central sun
of any particular oosmio system of any gcade. (3) G-reat Dissolution..