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PENTECOST 173 360 386 370 375 385 Of thought! How ends the brave B.D., Sammarising Ontology? “‘ This talk of ‘Real’ is a wraith. Our minds are lost in war of word ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I-do not feel myself inclined, The Advaitist In spite of my irreverent mind, position. So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams; …
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…and form in nameless and in formless Vanish, vanish and are lost for ever. DHAMMAPADA.! I. ANTITHESES. (THE TWINS.) ALL that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with evil thought, him doth pain follow sure and blind :? So the ox plants his foot and so the car-wheel follows hard behind. All that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with righteous thought, him happiness doth surely find. So failing not, the shadow falls for ever in its place assigned. ‘“Me he a…
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…TECOST 177 515 639 533 540 ad5 To—what abyss’s dizzy brink? And fall! And I have ceased to think! That is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail? Aum! Let us meditate aright °° On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Tliume our minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-d…
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…ions, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are pleased to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of t…
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254 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM this term. And I am convinced in my own mind that the Ananda (bliss) of Dhyana will surely arise long before one has passed even up to Sankhara, And for the reality, ‘twill be a brave jest, my masters, to fling back on the materialists that-terrible gibe of Voltaire’s at the mystery- mongers of his day: ‘‘Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” Note To Section VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s ‘‘ Transfigured …
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172 THE SWORD OF SONG Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair? So says Mansel. That masks the primal cause of being. With all respect to Buddha, fleeing The dreadful problem with the word ‘* Who answers, as who asks, hath erred,” I must decidedly insist On asking why these things exist. My mind refuses to admit All-Power can be all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What though…
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…voluted curve !” These are my thoughts. I shall not swerve. Take them, and see what. dooms deserve Their rugged grandeur—heaven or hell? Mind the dark doorway there! ® Farewell ! How tedious I always find That special manner of my mind ! Aum ! let us meditate aright On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Illume our minds! So mote it be! 795 800 805 810 815
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…all be released from Mara’s chains. Who stills not thought, nor knows true laws; in whom distraction is not dumb, Troubling his peace of mind; he shall to perfect knowledge never come. His thoughts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assail! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie …
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…ble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind: Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind? He, void of temperance and truth, from guilt, impurity, and sin Not free, the poor and golden robe he hath no worth to clothe therein.? Regarding temperance and truth, from guilt, impurity, and sin Freed, he the poor and golden robe indeed hath worth to clothe therein. They who see falsehood in the Truth, imagine Truth to lurk in lies, …
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…hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of cares how heavy! Drink! The peace of the Priest ! [He drinks up the liquor. Be thou my light ! Uncloud the misty channels of the mind ! Off, horror! O…
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94 THE ARGONAUTS ARGUS. I stand with brows abashed. Thou art the master—build the ship thyself. JASON. Nay, but my knowledge is of mind alone. I cannot so apply it as to build An Argo. ARGUS. Yet I verily believe Such mind must pierce far deeper than these names, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. say !1 Tell us what they THESEUS. Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS…
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… gain the thing I seek?”’ Rape of Lucrece. THERE is much sorcery in the word eleven. I took my lover’s image pale and clear, Fixed in my mind; I saw her standing near, Wooed her, conjured her by the power of heaven, Of my own mind, the Genii of the Seven, To come and live with me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s lov…
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…swift as caddies pat and cap a tee, Gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- Roic guerdon of Srotapatti ? With calm and philosophic mind, Our logical No fears, no hopes, devotions blind cna ioe a To hamper, soberly we'll state demonstrating The problem, and investigate erudition of In purely scientific mood poet. The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those brazen nails subdued Against our door-posts may in vain Ring. We'll examine, to be plain, By logic’s intellectual prism The spiritual Syllogism. We know wh…
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…osts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll *’ when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny reality. A…
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…he soul foredoomed to pain. In any case, its run must range Through countless miseries of change. So far, no farther, gentle youth ! The mind can see. So much, no more. So runs the premiss major plain ; Identical, the Noble truth First of the Buddha’s Noble Four ! The premiss minor. I deplore These limitations of the mind. I strain my eyes until they’re blind, And cannot pierce the awful veil * In Memoriam. + All is Sorrow. Bard is pleased with himself. Poetee mani- fests a natural irritation. Sabbé pi Duk- kham ! ¢ Beyond thought, is there hop…
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… gctbert That any will at all is freed, penest And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If there is free As a mere mirage in the mind, will how can Un j fr Al. But all P leadiny there be pain p Jumps fee will. ut all 1m pleading or damnation? Is against pain and hell. Freewill not-Self being Then can damn man? No …
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… I gain at last the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, - But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one 410 Thing at a time — suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !) ® And at that instant comprehend (The past and future tenses vanish) What Fichte comprehends, Division, 415 Thought, wisdom, drop away. I see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. Some poetry. There is a Jake * amid the snows Wherein five glaciers merge and break. 420 Oh! the deep brilliance of the lake! Th…
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…st, Beets Chr (You now perceive my sermon’s text.) tian, First leap to Sunward flings you vexed By glory of its own riposte Back to your mind. But gathering strength And nerve, you come (ah hght !) at length To dwell awhile in the caress Of that strange super-consciousness. After one memory —O abide ! Vivid Savitri lightning-eyed !— Nothing is worth a thought beside. One hint of Amrita® to taste And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained * His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated ‘ Love.” Indeed I…
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… Hence I account no promise worse, Fail to conceive a fiercer curse Than John’s third chapter (sixteenth verse), But now (you say) broad-minded folk Think that those words the Master spoke Should save all men at last. But mind! The text says nothing of the kind! Read the next verses ! t Then—one-third Of all humanity are steady In a belief in Buddha’s word, Possess eternal life already, And shun delights, laborious days Of labour living (Milton’s phrase) In strenuous purpose to—? to cease ! “A fig for God’s eternal peace ! True peace is to anni…
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… grandeur of our edifice by jimcrack pinnacles of stucco—as who should hang the Taj Mahal with fairy lamps and chintz. It is simple. The mind is compelled to fix its attention on a single thought; while the controlling power is exercised and a profound watchfulness kept up lest the thought should for a moment stray.t. The latter portion is, to my mind, the essential one. The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance- box and his eye on the spot of light of a galvano…