The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE This account of Samadhi is very incongruous. Through- out the whole treatise Hindoo ideas are painfully mixed with Buddhist, and the introduction of the ‘four noble truths’ comes very strangely as the precursor of verses 88 and 89. 89. Behold! thou hast become the Light, thou hast be- come the Sound, thou art thy Master and thy God. Thou art THYSELF the object of thy search: the VOICE unbroken, that resounds throughout eternities, exempt from change, from sin exempt, the Seven Sounds in one, THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE Om Cat Sat. This is a pure peroration, and clearly involves an ego- centric metaphysic. The style of the whole treatise is characteristically occi- dental. 39