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that single moment is verily a Kalpa. If it will. spread
' leisurely the experience of a single moment over the time
covered by a whole Kalpa, then that Kalpa is, to that Con-
sciousness, no more' than a single moment. Lavana passed
throug-h a hundred years of life in a single night. What is
but a Muhurta(^1) to the Lord of creatures, Brahma of the
winged Swan, that is the whole lifetime of a Manu ; what is
the whole lifetime of a Brahma, is but as a day to Vishnu of
the Eagle and the Whirling' Discus ; and what, again, is the
whole life'period of a Vishnu is but a day of Maheshvara of the
Four-Footed Bull(^2). And he who is firm-fixed in Nirvikalpa-
Samadhi(^3) knows neither night nor day; time and lapse of
time are naught to him. See, in this world, how Consciousness
doth ever make reality. Practice makes sweet bitter, bitter
sweet. Persistence changes foe to friend and friend to foe..
Strang-e things, new sciences, the ways of Japa(^4) and of
meditation, seem so hard at first; practice, persistent
Consciousness, makes them all easy.
(1) A period of time equal to forty-eight minutes.
(2) Ordinarily, the Puranas indicate that the Brahma, Vishnu, and
Shiva of each "world-system are co-evals and compeers. But the Maha-
Vishnu of a larger system may have many Brahmas of smaller systems
within His jurisdiction; the Maha-Shiva of a still larger system may rule
over many smaller Vishnus; and a Maha-Brahma over Vishaus and
Shivas ; ad 'l^fimtum. (See the Pranava'-Vdda}. Some of the visible stars
are millions of times larger than our Sun. Oar whole Solar system is as
a single planeUn a larger; that again in a yet vaster ; ad infinitum; an
endless Hierarchy, imposing higher and higher Unity upon greater and
greater Multiplicity. Vehicles and weapons are symbolical.
(8) Meditation without a definite 'object'; in which the self is intent.
upon the Self, the Subject, Alone.
(4) Repetition of the tiame word or words, over and over again, carried
Irom. tlie waM'ng into the somnolent and then the sleeping condition, to
ptoano^ Wdiain pbyoho-physioal effects; or with reflection on thQ
meaning of the words, to bring a^ataphysioal ooBl^rehenBion.