[ 5 and inner principle of life. In its disparale, divided form, it is Jivatma (the univorsal life as manifesled in the individual, the individual soul in the individual body ); while colleclively. in its mass and łołality, it is lhe reflection of Paramatma—the aggregale and sum-lolol of all energy and existence in the universe. Hvory separale and individual hing in this world is made ι ΙΙ» of the essential principle of the five main elemenis, earth, water. Gir, fire and ether. This body ilsels is a variani and İransformation of the five elements, and fire (or force) is one of these elements. And the allpervasive solar sire, which is the cause and principle ol all Inotion, vibration, fire and electricity—this solar fire is Life. Many {1rG of opinion ihał, when man dies, ihe eloments which make Աp his hody Incrge and become one with the primal elemenis of the universe. The sun rolls and revolves in the mids of infinile ether. Inany millions of miles from the Earth ; and yet the force of sunlight sustains the life of man. The sive elements buttress and support one another, so to say. And wherevor there is other inside or outside the human body. force (or fire) also musi be there, either lulent or inunifest. And this force Car sire is nothing bui solar force. In the beginning of things, at the dawn of creation. the whole space of sky and ether was shrouded in
