definite kind, leads on the Jiva from the subtler to the denser
planes of nature; and how, again, when the Jiva tires of
those denser^g-ains and pains, a converse hunger takes it back
to those same planes of vast and subtle matter".

"Some little part I do begin to see," said Rama, ^of how
essential Consciousness is, to the universe. But tell me,
Master !, how this Changeful Mind arises".

"1 asked that iquestion once, myself, of Brahma," said
Vasishtha, ^and the story that He told to me in answer, I will
relate to thee some other time.1 But, in the meanwhile, ponder
over what'I have already told thee, that there is j^o Change in
Reality, from the Standpoint of the One which is the Change-
less Whole, including all the past, the present, and the
future, all possible workings of all changing minds, All At
Once, Here and Now, in a Restful Peace.

^AUM. May all cross safely over the difficulties of life,
may all see happy days, may all attain to wisdom, may all
rejoice everywhere. AUM."

ii ^ a^^g g^f0?, ^ ^snf°? ^Sn
^^ifew^a ^^ ^a ^ (I

(1) That further story is not likely to be retold in the English -
language, by this writer, who has worn his present body now for seventy-
six years. But if any reader is desirous to know, how this Changeful

Mind arises, and to know it without the setting of a story, he may look

into the books named in the foot-note on p. 94-, supra,

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