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able, and, when Durga appeared in her third incarnation as Yoga
Maya, she was not to undergo further incarnation in this Kalpa. To
the developing sense of Yoga Maya, Siva gave truth after truth, till
the highest truths were revealed to her, which form the A gam as and
Nigamas. The revelations to the developing sense of humanity are
the Tantras.
Sri Krishna was born that men might come up to His ideal.
He is the first Purusha. The limitations or Maya of the solar sys-
tem do not touch Him. He is the Lord of many solar systems.
Even the materials that form the solar systems have their manifesta-
tion from him. Nothing that we know of, nothing that we are com-
posed of, nothing that shapes our experiences, that causes our likes
and dislikes, limits Krishna. Even Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, the
triune aspect of the second Purusha, are limited by the universe they
lord over. Siva is also called an aspect of the first Purusha in
Saiva Puranas.
Sri Krishna is Nirguna, for the Gunas we know of do not
touch Him. He is the Absolute, for the relativities we know of, or
which we may even think of, have no place in Him. The other
Avataras are said to be manifestations of the second Purusha. But
Krishna is Bhagavan Himself, i. e., the first Purusha (1-3-28).
There are three aspects of the Absolute, the non-transforma-
ble, which uphold creation. It is through these aspects that all
beings come into existence, prosper and dissolve. It is through them
that they are brought nearer and nearer in every Kalpa to Isvara. In
the perfected being, the aspects of sat (existence), chit (conscious-
ness) and ananda (bliss) are not restricted by the conditions of
the universe in which those aspects are developed. When beings
are perfected in this way, they reach the plane of Krishna, which is
beyond the seven-fold plane of the Cosmic Egg. The Gopis are
such perfected beings.
It will be out of place to enter here into a detailed study of
these aspects. But it will be necessary to make a brief reference to
them in order to understand the aspect of Bliss, as a factor in spiritual
Evolution.
It is the existence aspect of the underlying ray of the Absolut e
Brahman, in every individual, that gives a continuity to individual
existence, through thousands of births and experiences, and makes
individual evolution a possibility.
The consciousness aspect of the ray unfolds the blunt inani-
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