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SPIRITUAL JOY
Substance is constant as well as variable. If it were only constant, there will be no need for action. It undergoes transformations because of its very nature. New entities are born and the old ones destroyed in the process of its vibrations. The soul also is constant as well as variable like other substances. It produces two kinds of vibrations : natural vibrations and artificial vibrations brought about by external agencies. The natural vibrations of the soul take place ceaselessly. Artificial vibrations are produced by external agencies, which are of various kinds. Karma (action) is one of them. Prāna (vital energy) is another. Human beings are subject to three kinds of vibrations : vibrations of t soul, vibrations of karma and vibrations of vital energy. The whole universe is a sea of vibrations. One part of it is no doubt constant, but even it is subject to continuous transformations. Another part of it is eternal, but that also undergoes modifications. Everywhere there is a flux of change and vibrations. It is a Herculean task to search out something wbich does not vibrate.
The vibrations of consciousness are the subtlest. Those of karma or the subtle body are subtler. Those of prāņa (vital air) are subtle. Those of the gross body are gross. When we feel the vibrations of the gross body, we take them to be joys and sorrows. It is not possible to go beyond them and to search for joy. So far as we live on the level of empirical consciousness we cannot imagine anything beyond it capable of giving joy.
Breath also vibrates. Its vibrations produce eletricity. Vital energy is the controlling force of life. It is called āyuşya prāna. It also vibrates and causes further vibrations in all
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