III / (i)

The Creation

The Absolute Reality in Its ultimate form was Nirankar, Nirgun and Anami – formless, without attributes, and nameless – and could only be expressed in negatives: neither Light nor darkness, neither Sound nor silence etc. It was incomprehensible, ineffable, infinite and indescribable. It was this Supreme Reality that was responsible for everything else. When It projected Itself into form, It brought into being the purely Spiritual Realms of Agam, Alakh, Sat Naam, etc.; Light and Sound appearing as Its primal attributes. Thence as It descended downward, It brought into creation the material current or Kal which gained in predominance as it moved lower and still lower.

The countless regions that were created below the purely Spiritual Realms of Sat Desh could be divided into three grand divisions: Brahmand, And and Pind – the causal, the astral and the physical, or the spirituo-material, the materio-spiritual and the material.

So long as one lived in the plane of the relative, one was caught in the web of Maya. One desire was succeeded by another and pleasure was followed by pain. There could be no lasting rest, no lasting joy. 

God, in filling the cup of man’s earthly blessings, had left out happiness and contentment, to insure that His creature did not wholly forget his Maker.

The only way to attain beatitude lay in transcending the realm of relativity and reaching the regions of pure spirit where the soul merged in the Absolute, became lost in the Ocean of Consciousness, and was freed from all failings and desires.