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with the general current, but would like to remain fixed in spiritual
life, and Narada was always to be found helping them with his advice.
Dhruva remained fixed in his early spirituality. That was a
sacrifice, for he could not enrich himself with furthur spiritual ex-
periences, through the senses, of the lower planes of life. But he
had to keep up an abode which was to be resorted to by evolved souls
in later days, souls that in due course would reach that high spiritual
plane.
From that Kalpic plane and the dweller thereof, we come to
lower planes and their dwellers, to the divisions of time that rule the
lives of individuals and of lives adapted to these divisions of time.
We come from the elementals of the Svarga plane, or the Devas,
to the elementals of the Astral or Bhuvar plaw, the Pitris, Bhutas,
Pretas and Pisachas, till we reach the mineral kingdom, represented
by Himalya, the Mountain king. At this point a turning point was
reached in life evolution, and the goddess of life-evolution became
the daughter of the Mountain king. Of this we shall know more
hereafter.
We know of Daksha, first as the son of Brahma, the creative
Prajapati when the life-process rapidly worked itself out in Elemental
forms. Then there was no sexual procreation. Creation meant the
materialisation of the Jiva. Sati, the daughter of Daksha, was the guid-
ing energy of life-evolution. She became wedded to Siva, the Lord
of Bhutas, Pretas and Pisachas who by the infusion of their T^masic
energies could bring down Jivas from their high spiritual plane.
When the process of materialisation was over, when the Jivas
or Monads reached the lowest limits of materiality, the mission of
Daksha came to an end.
Life evolution had now to pass through mineral, vegetable and
animal stages, until at last the human stage was reached.
Sati now appeared as the daughter of the mineral king Hima-
laya. She gave the upward bent to life evolution and by the energy
she imparted minerals were able to shake off the rigidity and stability
of gross matter, to develop the sense of touch and to become vege-
table at last. In liek manner vegetable became animal, and animals
at last became men.
Siva, the husband of Bhagavati or Durga, as Sati was now
called, is the Purusha of Dissolution. Bhagavati is His Energy, Who
guides the Monadic or Jiva Evolution of the Kalpa. It is the wear
and tear, the process of destruction, that counteracts the cohesive
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