II. Evolution : Breath The Symbol For Inspiration Is Sa, and For Expiration Ha. It Is Easy To See How

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II.

Evolution ~
It will be very interesting to trace the development of man and the development of the
world according to the theory of the tatwas.
The tatwas, as we have already seen, are the modifications of Swara.
Regarding Swara, we find in our book: "In the Swara are the Vedas and the shastras,
and in the Swara is music. All the world is in the Swara; Swara is the spirit itself."
The proper translation of the word Swara is "the current of the life-wave". It is that
wavy motion which is the cause of the evolution of cosmic undifferentiated matter
into the differentiated universe, and the involution of this into the primary state of
non-differentiation, and so on, in and out, forever and ever. From whence does this
motion come? This motion is the spirit itself. The word atma used in the book, itself
carries the idea of eternal motion, coming as it does from the root at, eternal motion;
and it may be significantly remarked, that the root at is connected with (and in fact is
simply another form of) the roots ah, breath, and as, being. All these roots have for
their original the sound produced by the breathing of animals. In The Science of
Breath the symbol for inspiration is sa, and for expiration ha. It is easy to see how
these symbols are connected with the roots as and ah. The current of life-wave spoken
of above is technically called Hansachasa, i.e., the motion of ha and sa. The
word Hansa, which is taken to mean God, and is made so much of in many Sanskrit
works, is only the symbolic representation of the eternal processes of life -- ha and sa.
The primeval current of life-wave is, then, the same which in man assumes the form
of inspiratory and expiratory motion of the lungs, and this is the all-pervading source
of the evolution and the involution of the universe.
The book goes on: "It is the Swara that has given form to the first accumulations of
the divisions of the universe; the Swara causes involution and evolution; the Swara is
God Himself, or more properly the great Power (Mahashwara)." The Swara is the
manifestation of the impression on matter of that power which in man is known to us
as the power that knows itself. It is to be understood that the action of this power
never ceases. It is ever at work, and evolution and involution are the very necessity of
its unchangeable existence.
The Swara has two different states. The one is known on the physical plane as the
sun-breath, the other as the moon-breath. I shall, however, at the present stage of
evolution designate them as positive and negative respectively. The period during
which this current comes back to the point from whence it started is known as the
night of parabrahma. The positive or evolutionary period is known as the day
of parabrahma; the negative or involutionary portion is known as the night

of parabrahma. These nights and days follow each other without break. The subdivisions of this period comprehend all the phases of existence, and it is therefore
necessary to give her the scale of time according to the HinduShastras.

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