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(8:3) The Blessed Lord replied: Brahman is the Indestructible and Supreme Spirit. Adhyatma is Brahman’s manifestation as the essential soul of all beings. Cosmic karma is AUM (the Cosmic Vibration), which causes the birth, sustenance, and dissolution of all creatures, and also the diversity of their natures.
Brahman (the Supreme Spirit), in order to manifest His cosmic dream, set a portion of His consciousness in vibration. Thus came into being the Cosmic Sound, AUM. This Cosmic Vibration is the primordial karma (action), out of which all individual karmas are manifested. Self-conscious (human) beings, in whatever forms they manifest on different planets, are all governed by the “rhythmic law” of individual and mass karma.
A playwright is conscious of the characters he creates from both inside and outside their minds—that is to say, both subjectively and objectively. At the same time, he remains untouched, personally, by their personalities. Even so, Brahman has divided His functions—not Himself—into the watchful but never-affected Viewer (the Spirit Itself); the action in the play as a whole (Cosmic Vibration), which determines (but also, on a micro- cosmic scale, is determined by) the characters, each with his own individual destiny (karma) to work out. The third division of functions is the Kutastha Chaitanya, the reflected consciousness of vibrationless Spirit in every tremor of vibration in the universe. In a way similar to a chip of wood rising and sinking with every passing wave, though its horizontal position remains unchanged, the divine consciousness at the heart of each ripple of Cosmic Vibration remains a motionless reflection of the vibrationless Spirit.
Individual karmas, relative to the over-all activity at the ocean’s surface, might be compared to the wake behind a ship: never affecting the over-all ocean level—any more than storm waves affect it—nor even effecting much change anywhere except locally.
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