This world was created to manifest beauty and delight, to manifest the joy of love and the joy of multiplicity, the joy of danger and the joy of mastery and victory, the joy of unity in diversity, the joy of solving the great puzzle called life where everything seems separate yet everything is connected, where everything seems different yet the differences are supported on a base of oneness. The world has been created by an artist and a dancer whose rapture and rhythm are not easy to capture. It is certainly not the creation of a rational analytical mental intelligence but of a vast and supreme Intelligence that uses random accidents to create the new and the unexpected, whose random strokes bring out beautiful paints in the morning, as a master musician who sings in the birds and the winds and the seas, who limits his infinite power that spins the galaxies into the small pebble, the grass and the ant. This world is a wonder and a marvel if we know how to experience it but for that we have to take out the distorting lens of the ego and ignorance and grow in consciousness. After all can a child understand and appreciate the masterpieces of Art or understand the sophistries of quantum mechanics? It is the Divine multiplying Himself in various masks of the body until the mask will be such that it will also reflect and radiate the Divine.
Yes you can read the first book of The Life Divine or Savitri. Reading one or two chapters may not suffice as they flow in an interconnected way. Savitri Book One Canto Four (The Secret Knowledge) may give you the needed clues.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
