From the Editor’s Desk

Oh the one life within us and abroad which meets all motion and becomes its soul. A Light in Sound, a sound-like Power in Light.

S.T. Coleridge

Life is an endless impulse from the Supreme Being, the source and fountain-head of all life. The whole creation, visible and invisible alike is one mass of life, throbbing with and bubbling over with Elan Vital. Even the so-called matter in so many forms, animate and inanimate, lives by the power of life at its core. Matter without life, no matter the degree and quantum of the living force therein, cannot by itself assume any form for it is the motor power that upholds all between heaven and earth here and in the beyond.

Paradoxical as it may seem, life is characterised at once by motion and stillness. It is all a vibrating activity, at the surface and the circumference of all that is, but at the centre it is quietude and stillness though highly potential. It is this latent potentiality that springs forth into active life, so plainly patent and visible to us on the level of the senses. It is just the diffused rays radiating from the sensitive life-mass that sensitises matter, giving it a certain pattern and dimension, shape and form, besides colour and complexion with variegated hues and shades all over the lineaments, high and low, as the case may be.

We the humans, like all else in the vast universe, are the surface effects of the Cause of all causes, governing the grand panorama of life that unfolds itself before us. All motions, magnetic, electronic, gravitational, orbital and elliptical are but different manifestations of the One Life-Current within and around us, and wether we will it or not, we are being governed by them no matter whether we know it or not.

This then is the crux of the life-play that we witness from day to day. Tossed by currents and cross currents of our own action, and their reactions in the field of actions – Karma Khashtra –, little do we know from whence we come and whereto do we go. Are we then the outcome of mere chance and go by chance only. ‘No’ is what the Saints emphatically affirm.

How different it would be with us if we could tear off the blinding blinkers from our eyes and penetrate through the thick veil of gloom enshrouding us and be the seers of the aimless shafts that we freely send hurtling to pave our doom in the distant future.

It is the communion of the self with the Self that puts an end to all our ephemeral sorrows and joys of the world.

The Spirit and Power of God resides in us. It is nearer to us than the jagular vein. It is the soul of our soul. We live, move and have our being in the sea of Divine Melodic Light – a Light in Sound, a sound-like Power in Light, and It can be realised through the Grace of One Who knows the Father and holds authority from Him for revelation to man.