Page 52 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

beginning. This thought itself proceeds from the divine fire or will which is eternal, from which all things or thoughts arise and to which all return.
The energy particles coming into contact with thought get heated up and move out; and in this moving out they irradiate the entire universe, forming rings and rings and individuating themselves.
If we can conceive of each particle of energy as a soul or ego coming into contact with the original thought arising from the eternally existing divine will it will be seen that each of these has produced for itself a series of rings which as they become distant from the centre, become grosser and grosser. Further they get caught up in these rings which are indeed their cocoons so to speak.
It must be seen that the process of creation or daytime starts with this push towards grosser and grosser existence, as the divine heat becomes operative in converting subtle energy into gross particles. Thus the necessity to see that this precise time of our grossening must be taken advantage of for realising subtility becomes clear. We have to reverse this process by the practice of connection or maintaining through the divine thought with the centre or central thought or condition which is Tam* or that (accusative singular of Sah). This condition may be said to be the ultimate state or God. It is absolute peace or Santi, beyond that nothing is.
Man strives for this Santhi, or peace within. There is resemblance with this santhi at the time of creation or rather dissolution. The times of conjunction (Sandhi) between creation and dissolution are both early morning before sunrise, and sunset in the evening and this Santhi deepens as the night advances and reaches the maximum about midnight. Great union which is protective of peace is thus had in the night or Laya periods. It is the time of absorption in the peace. The diurnal peace is taken advantage of even as the Chandogya upanishad states that one verily indeed goes to him every night during his sleep (one's sensory and motor quiet,) though one does not remember this. Yoga is the process of remembering this conjunction and union through practice of remembrance making use of the times that grant such a possibility. The midday is not utilized as it is the period of intensive activity for moving forward and only slightly points to the path of return.