A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

,DoVEDANTA. 365Either they express themselves as thought,reflected fromcvfatahkarana, the inner organs of man have one organ,.andHhe unit from which they springis what is called theprana. Again what isprana ? Prana is spandana orvibration. When all this universe will have resolved backinto its primal state, what becomes of this infinite force?they think that it becomes extinct ? Of course not. Ifit became , extinct, what would be the cause of the nextwave, because the motion isgoing in wave forms, rising,falling, rising again, falling again? Here is the wordsrishti which expresses the universe. Mark that the wordis not creation. I am helpless in talking English ;I have totranslate the Sanskrit words anyhow. It is srishti, projection. Everything becomes finer and finer and is resolvedback to the primal state from Vhich it sprang, and there itremains for a time, quiescent, ready to spring forth again.That is srishti, projection. And what becomes of all theseforces the prana ? They are resolved back into the primalprana, and this prana becomes almost motionless notentirely motionless, but almost motionless and that iswhat is described in the sukta. "It vibrated withoutvibrations," a anidavatam. There are manyin the Upanishads to understand, especiallydifficult textsin the use oftechnical phrases. For instance the word vayu, to move ;many times it means air and many times motion, and oftenpeople confuse one with the other. We have to take careof this. "It existed in that form." And what becomes ofwhat you call matter? The forces permeate all matter;they all dissolve into ether, from which they again comeout : and the first to come out was akasa. Whether youtranslate it as ether, or anything else, this is the idea,that this akasa is the primal form of matter. This akasavibrates under the action of prana, and when the next