"VAISESIKA assigned the origin of the world to atoms, eternal in
their nature, i.e., their ultimate peculiarities. These atoms were
regarded as possessing an incessant vibratory motion. . . . The
recent discovery that an atom is a miniature solar system would be
no news to the old VAISESIKA philosophers, who also reduced time to
its furthest mathematical concept by describing the smallest unit
of time (KALA) as the period taken by an atom to traverse its own
unit of space."
{FN8-6} Translated from the Bengali of Rabindranath Tagore, by
Manmohan Ghosh, in VISWA-BHARATI.
CHAPTER: 9
THE BLISSFUL DEVOTEE AND HIS COSMIC ROMANCE
"Little sir, please be seated. I am talking to my Divine Mother."
Silently I had entered the room in great awe. The angelic
appearance of Master Mahasaya fairly dazzled me. With silky white
beard and large lustrous eyes, he seemed an incarnation of purity.
His upraised chin and folded hands apprized me that my first visit
had disturbed him in the midst of his devotions.
His simple words of greeting produced the most violent effect my
nature had so far experienced. The bitter separation of my mother's
death I had thought the measure of all anguish. Now an agony at
separation from my Divine Mother was an indescribable torture of
the spirit. I fell moaning to the floor.
"Little sir, quiet yourself!" The saint was sympathetically
distressed.
Abandoned in some oceanic desolation, I clutched his feet as the
sole raft of my rescue.
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