The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE TWO PATHS thee sternly in the face. She says: “Sweet are the fruits of Rest and Liberation for the sake of Self; but sweeter still the fruits of long and bitter duty. Aye (si), Renunciation for the sake of others, of suffering fellow-men.” 86. He, who becomes Pratyeka-Buddha, makes his obei- sance but to his Self. The Bodhisattva who has won the battle, who holds the prize within his palm, yet says in his divine compassion: 87. “For others’ sake this great reward I yield” —accom- plishes the greater Renunciation. A SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD is he. Here a.again we are-etold of the sweetness of the fruits. But even in the beginning the Magician has had to work entirely regardless of any fruits, and his principal method has been to reject any that may come his way. Again all this about the ‘sake of others’ and ‘suffering fellow-men,’ is the kind of sentimental balderdash that assures one that this book was intended to reach the English and not the Tibetan public. The sense of separateness from others has been weeded out from the consciousness long, long ago. The Buddha who accomplishes the greater Renunciation is a Saviour of the World—it is the dogginess of a dog that makes it doggy. It is not the virtue of a dog to be doggy. A dog does not be- come doggy by the renunciation of non-dogginess. It is quite true that you and I value one kind of a Buddha more than another kind of a Buddha, but the Universe is not framed in accordance with what you and I like. As Zoro- aster says: “The progression of the Stars was not generated 75