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Whenever a combination is formed, there is one life
that combination the life of the ruler of that combination. Ail
other lives have to surrender themselves completely and entirely to
that one life. This is the law and we have to bow down our heads
to the inevitable. There is life in every cell that composes the
human body. But the cell lives are all subordinated to the life of
the man, the Jivatma ruling the combination that forms the man.
So long as the cell is attached to the human combination, it has no
independence whatsoever. And this is to the immense benefit of the
cells themselves. They receive the impress of souls much more
evolved than their own and are able to evolve themselves at a much
more rapid rate, than if they had been left to themselves. This is
the law of giving and taking, the law of sacrifice, the Yajna which
is the essence of creation. And even as men approach the state of
Tsvara, they have to surrender themselves completly to Him and to
merge themselves in His existence.
The Jivic or Monadic flow first appears on the plane of Svarga,
it comes down to Bhnvar and then to Bhur, to appear finally in the
mineral Kingdom of our Earth. This process of coming down does
not require separate guidance for separate combinations. The down-
ward flow is homogeneous. It is carried on under the guidance of
the Prajapatis. It is all involution during this process taking in
grosser and grosser matter and not rejecting anything. Rudra had
no work to do during the earliest stages of monadic life. The mine-
ral Kingdom appeared and the Himalayan chain reared up its
head. The legend says the sons of Himalaya had wings on and
they could move about but the Devas cut down their wings and they
became fixed. No doubt the mineral Kingdom hardened and became
immobile in time. The immobility of the mineral Kingdom, the
final reach of matter in its downward course was the turning
point in the life history of Jivas. Their foetal stage was over and
they were now born into the Kalpa, as it were.
There was need for separation now, for the rejection of par-
ticles and the drawing in of new ones, and Durga appeared as the
daughter of Himalaya.
She became wedded to Siva once more and since then there
was change continually going on in all forms of life, that evolved out
of the mineral Kingdom. There was continual adjustment of external
and internal conditions, called life. The vegetable appeared, the
animal appeared and the man appeared. The life process means
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