Page 370 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
veiled?) In the gross in a different sense than that in which the potentiality of the gross is veiled in the subtle. This means that the subtle manifests the gross or evolves itself in the effect or gross condition. Sri Ram Chandra states that this condition could be expressed in a different way. The outer contains the inner and as it is opened, the inner becomes the cover of the outer. God contains Nature and the individual souls. Just as the outer is Nature and the inner is the Ultimate spirit, even so, for each individual soul, the outer is Nature and the inner is its own Ultimate spirit in its individuated form. Therefore, what is true of the Ultimate and its manifestation is equally true of the individual souls. It is, therefore necessary for each individual to recover or re-cover or uncover the inner and thus make it the outer, and the outer the inner, if it cannot be abolished. Nature thus becomes veiled and the spirit gets unveiled or revealed and this is realization of the Ultimate spirit. The individual soul has therefore to retrace its steps and with assiduity and energy persevere in the unveiling of the spirit within, either by making the outer, or by abolishing entirely the outer. The more natural way is just to invert the whole process by restoring the primacy of the spirit and assigning a subordinate status to Nature. This happens in two natural ways: first is the process, which automatically reverses the movement which tends to the maximum of unfolding or pravrtti, the process by which Nature which is concealed , or potential in spirit, is made the outer visible gross nature and consequently spirit appears to be almost completely absent in Nature in its grossest form. This of course, does not happen completely, for before this limit of absolute non-existence of spirit happens, the process gets automatically reversed. This principle is known to be present in all natural phenomena, Similarly it is perhaps to be assumed that the process of nivrtti, or reversal of nature, leads to the more and more subtle states of spirit
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