“There is nothing new.
The same series of manifestations are presenting themselves alternately, like a wheel coming up and down.
All motion in this universe is in the form of successively rising and falling.
Systems after systems are coming out of the finer forms, evolving themselves, taking the grosser forms, again melting down, as it were, and going back again to the cause.
So with all life. Each manifestation of life is coming up and then going back again. What goes down?
The form.
In one sense, even the body is immortal.
In one sense, bodies and forms are eternal.
How?
Suppose we take a number of dice and throw them.
Suppose the dice fall in this ratio: 5-6-3-4.
We take the dice up and throw them again, and again.
There must come a time when the same number will fall again, the same combinations will come.
“Now, the atoms comprising the universe are like dice being thrown out and combined, again and again.
But there must come a time when exactly the same combination comes again, when you will be here, and this form will be here, this subject will be talked, and this pitcher, for instance, will be here.
An infinite number of times this has been, and an infinite number of times will be repeated.
“We are never born and we never die.
Each atom is a living thing, leading its own independent life.
These atoms combine into groups for an end, and the groups manifest a group intelligence, so long as it remains a group, these groups again combining in turn and forming bodies of a more complex nature, which serve as vehicles for higher forms of consciousness.
When death comes to the physical body, the cells separate and scatter and that which we call decay sets in.
The force which held the cells together is withdrawn, and they become free to go their own way and to form new combinations.
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to the building up of another.”
And on involution:
“The seed is becoming the plant; a grain of sand never becomes a plant.
It is the father that becomes the child. A lump of clay never becomes a child.
Out of what does this involution come, is the question.
What was the seed?
It is the same as the tree.
All the possibilities of a future tree are in that seed; all the possibilities of a future man are in the baby; all the possibilities of any life are in the germ.
What is this?
We find then that every evolution presupposes an involution.
Nothing can be evolved which is not already involved.
Here again, modern science comes to our help.
You know by mathematical reasoning that the sum total of the energy that is displayed in the universe is the same throughout. You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force.
As such, evolution did not come out of zero.
Then, where does this come from?
It came in involution before.
The child is the man involved and the man is the child evolved; the seed is the tree involved, and the tree is the seed evolved.
All the possibilities of life are in the germ.
The question becomes a little clearer.
Add to it the first idea of continuation of life.
From the lowest protoplasm to the most perfect human being, there is only one life.
The design is inheritent in the seed before the form is evolved.”
One day Berenice asked:
“What about charity?”
The Guru answered:
“When you help the poor, feel not the slightest pride.
Be thankful for the opportunity to give.
To do so is your worship and no cause for pride.
Is not the whole universe yourself?