Part 14 (1/2)
The Sanskrit anus can be properly translated as 'atom' in the latter's literal Greek sense of 'uncut' or indivisible Other scientific expositions of VAISESIKA treatises of the BC era include (1) the nets, (2) the circulation of water in plants, (3) AKASH or ether, inert and structureless, as a basis for trans subtle forces, (4) the solar fire as the cause of all other fore, (6) the law of gravitation as caused by the quality that inheres in earth-atoive them their attractive power or doard pull, (7) the kinetic nature of all energy; causation as always rooted in an expenditure of energy or a redistribution of ration of atoht rays, infinitely s forth in all directions with inconceivable speed (the modern 'cosmic rays' theory), (10) the relativity of tiin of the world to atoms, eternal in their nature, ie, their ulti an incessant vibratory motionThe recent discovery that an atom is a miniature solar system would be no news to the old VAISESIKA philosophers, who also reduced ti the smallest unit of time (KALA) as the period taken by an atom to traverse its own unit of space”
{FN8-6} Translated froore, by Manmohan Ghosh, in VISWA-BHARATI
CHAPTER: 9
THE BLISSFUL DEVOTEE AND HIS COSMIC ROMANCE
”Little sir, please be seated I a to reat awe The angelic appearance of Master Mahasaya fairly dazzled e lustrous eyes, he seemed an incarnation of purity
His upraised chin and folded hands apprized me that my first visit had disturbed hireeting produced the most violent effect my nature had so far experienced The bitter separation of uish Now an agony at separation from my Divine Mother was an indescribable torture of the spirit I fellto the floor
”Little sir, quiet yourself!” The saint was sympathetically distressed
Abandoned in some oceanic desolation, I clutched his feet as the sole raft of my rescue
”Holy sir, thy intercession! Ask Divine Mother if I find any favor in Her sight!”
This promise is one not easily bestowed; the master was constrained to silence
Beyond reach of doubt, I was convinced that Master Mahasaya was in intimate converse with the Universal Mother It was deep humiliation to realize that my eyes were blind to Her who even at this aze of the saint Shaentle reain for his intervening grace
”I will make your plea to the Beloved” The master's capitulation came with a slow, compassionate s should know release froe! I shall return soon for Herinin sorrow
Descending the long stairway, I was overwhelmed by memories This house at 50 Amherst Street, now the residence of Master Mahasaya, had once been my family home, scene of my mother's death Here my human heart had broken for the vanished h crucified by absence of the Divine Mother Halloalls, silent witness of er as I returned tothe seclusion of my small attic, I remained in meditation until ten o'clock The darkness of the warht was suddenly lit with a wondrous vision
Haloed in splendor, the Divine Mother stood before , was beauty itself
”Always have I loved thee! Ever shall I love thee!”
The celestial tones still ringing in the air, She disappeared
The sun on the following le of decoru the staircase in the house of poignant memories, I reached his fourth-floor room The knob of the closed door rapped around with a cloth; a hint, I felt, that the saint desired privacy As I stood irresolutely on the landing, the door was opened by thehand I knelt at his holy feet In a playfulthe divine elation
”Sir, I have coe Did the Beloved Mother say anything about me?”
”Mischievous little sir!”
Not another reravity was unimpressive