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TAE GLORY OF SMRITI SANDHRBHA
This Universe presents itself as a constant current of Expansion and Contraction and of Light and Darkness. It can be compared to an ocean with its rising and falling tides. High and low tides are only illusory shapes of the ocean itself. They represent its activity but have no existence independent of the ocean. The changing Universe is also an illusion (sparent) a mere glimpse of the Eternal Spirit ( STTHT) which is the stable reality behind it. Men of knowledge are never perturbed by either the destruction or the creation of this universe.
The physical world can by known in the form of day and night which are caused by the bright Sun. Thus the light of the Sun is the magnetic force and the principal ingredient of all the animate and inanimate objects comprising the physical world.
From the earaliest of times, two opposing
