III.
The wonders of embryology.
Thirdly come to the microscopic world and
consider some of its marvels which patient scientific research has revealed to
our eyes. Take the process of pro-creation. Do you consider that the process is
simple and the matter ends when the married couple ends its embrace. If you
think so, you are mistaken, for it is just then that the embryo with all its
marvels stirs up. I will not bother you with unnecessary details, but consider
what happens when the male gamete fertilizes the female spore; the nucleus of
this cell coalesces with the nucleus of that cell, and then there is a thrill,
a ferment all over the new cell. If you see with the microscope, you will see a
two sided spindle set up in the heart of the cell. On each side of the spindle
there is an attracting centre, two opposite centres in all, and from these
centres fibrile rays are arrayed like little warps in a khadi-machine. This is
not all. Inside the rays, and equi-distant from the two centres are U,
shaped-rings (called chromosomes) which move back-ward and forward under the
impulse of new-fangled life. See how these rings first divide into two each and
when this is done the building bricks are duplicated; similarly they are
quadrupled, and in this way millions of little bricks, we call cells, are made,
each as exact replicas of the first cell, for do not the uncanny chromosomes
play the fairy-role of well matched fission. The two attracting centres are
somewhat like the pole-star in the northern hemisphere, and the Agastya
(canopus) star, in the southern hemisphere, and in between them, there are a
number of little rings of forces which play weird witch’s dance, even as they
do in the play of Macbeth! You have
only to turn the eye of microscope on these wonders of embryology when you
cannot help coming to the conclusion that the same hidden-power which rules the
heavens above also rules the tiny cells of which all mankind is made, yea, this
power rules dead matter also, for there again you have the same differentiation
into 2 camps, the positive electricity on one side like Pandos of old, and the teeming rings of negative electrons, like Kauros, on the other, with here and
there Neutrons as No-man’s-Land in
between. Whenever you see, and whatever you see up, above, or down below, in or
in the microcosm, you will find the same invisible, impalpable, yet none the
less same pulsating power, the Nirankar
for He is.
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