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all or always similar. The Vyasa sitting" now beside me is
the thirty-second that I can remember. Twelve of them had
realised the truth of the Supreme but faintly. Ten were high.
The rest were higher still. And in the endless future will be
born again, Vaslshthas, Vyasas, Valmikis, Bhrgus, Angirasas,
and others. So are these many races of Men and Gods and
Eshis born and reabsorbed repeatedly- This is the seventy-
second Treta of the Kalpa we are in. And the same Treta-
Cycle will appear again in other Kalpas. Many are the times
we all have been together in the past, as also separately, and
so again shall it be in the futnre. Even as a heap of grain
removed from granary to granary ever assumes new order of
arrangement, new combination, so do the Jivas in the universe.
The man who has attained to inward peace, passes unfretting
through the rearrangement. So this Vyasa, free of fear and
care, but only Jivan-mukta yet, has been born ten times
already, and has eight more births before him. In the end he
will arrange the scriptures, write the famous story of his race,
and then, attaining to the place and office of the Lotus-Born
Hiranya-garbha,(1) pass into the Final Peace.
"Difference of kinds in Mukti, as Jivan-mukti and Videha"
mukti, is, 0 Rama !, a fact only when the subject is looked at
from without ; to the inner view, Mukti is one and always.
The waters of the ocean, sleeping in the windless bays, or
heaving in the storm-tossed waves, are only water still. So,
too, That which is the Free, is as free within the body as
without. The outward form of the Muni is mere sense-object,
and gives not evidence of the Deliverance of the Spirit. That
is a thing internal, and is more perfect as the effort inwards
is more perfect."
(1) Hira^ya-garbba, 'golden womb/ (primeval luminous ethereal
fire-mist*)" iiam'erfor Brahma-Svayam-bhu, one of whose terns is
the Sun.                        —   •      -        .   ,