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Page 1 of 11912 · PDF PAGE 85
… somehow or other to kill someone first. “ Νονν the man whohas experienced any of the more intense forms of Dhyana is thus liberated. The Universe is thus destroyed for him, and he for it. His will can therefore go on its way unhampered. One may imagine that in the case of Mohammed he had cherished for years a tremendous ambition, and never done anything because those qualities which were subsequently manifested as statesmanship warned him that he was impotent. His vision in the cave gave him that confidence which was required, the faith that mov…
1912 · PDF PAGE 87
…ll aware that his senses constantly deceive him, that he invents elaborate instruments to correct them. And he is further aware that the Universe which he can directly perceive through sense, is the minutest fraction of the Universe which he knows indirectly. For example, four-fifths of the air is composed of nitrogen. If anyone were to bring a bottle of nitrogen into this room it would be exceed- ingly difficult to say what it was; nearly all the tests that one could apply to it would be negative. His senses tell him little or nothing. Argon was…
1912 · PDF PAGE 103
87 the body comes into contact with every atom in the Universe all at once,” is the description Bhikku Ananda Metteya gives of it. The root of the tongue gives the “ideal sound ”; and the pharynx the “ideal sight.”1 The Samadhi par excellence, however, is Atmadarshana, which for some, and those not the least instructed, is the first real Samadhi; for even the visions of “ God ” and of the “ Self” are tainted by form. In Atmadarshana the All is manifested as the One: it is the Universe freed from its conditions. Not only are all forms and ideas d…
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
…pect of the Deity,- “va” is energy, the mani- fested or female side of the Deity. This Mantra therefore expresses the Whole course ofthe Universe, from Zero through the finite back to Zero. Aum shi - va - ya Va-shi Aum shi - va - ya Va-shi 5. Allah. The syllables of this are accented equally, with a certain pause between them; and are usually combined by fakirs with a rhythm— .ical motion of the body to and fro. 6. Hfia allahu alazi lailaha illa Hua.
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
…ture and estimate its value in a perfectly unbiassed way, without allowing ourselves the usual rhapsodies, or deducing any theory of the universe. One extra fact may destroy some
1912 · PDF PAGE 104
88 the Universe has become the whole, and phenomena and noumena are no longer opposed. But it is quite impossible to describe this state of mind. One can only specify some of the characteristics, and that in language Which forms no image in mind. It is impossible for anyone who experiences it to bring back any adequate memory, nor can we conceive a state transcending this. There is, however, a very much higher state called Shivadarshana, of which it is only necessary to say that it is the destructionofthe previous state, its annihilation; and t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 66
…s practice is something like the experience which Sir Humphrey Davy had as a result of taking nitrous oxide, in which he exclaimed: “The universe is composed exclusively of ideas.” , Others say that it gives Hamlet’s feeling: “ There ’8 nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so,” interpreted as literally as was done by Mrs. Eddy.
1912 · PDF PAGE 49
… the mantra to meditate upon its meaning. This suggests that the student might construct for himself a mantra which should represent the Universe in sound, as the pantacle 1 should do in form. Occasion- ally a mantra may be “given,” i.e., heard in some unexplained manner during a meditation. One man, for example, used the words: “And strive to see in everything the will of God; ” to another, while engaged ’ apparently referring to the action of the inhibitory centres which he was using. By in killing thoughts, came the words “and push it down,’…
1912 · PDF PAGE 90
…llen from that state into “normal” life. It is probably rare for a single experience to upset thus radically the whole conception of the Universe, just as sometimes, in the first moments of waking, there remains a half-doubt as to whether dream or waking is real. But as one gains further experience, when Dhyana is no longer a shock, when the student has had plenty of time to make himself at home in the new world, this conviction will become absolute.1 ᾽It should be remembered that at present there are no data for determining the
1912 · PDF PAGE 84
… own with which they can compare it. The most important factor in Dhyana is, however, the annihilation of the Ego. Our conception of the universe must be completely overturned if we are to admit this as valid; and it is time that we considered what is really happening. It will be conceded that we have given a very rational explanation of the greatness of great men. They had an experience so overwhelming, so out of proportion to the rest of things, that they were freed from all the petty hindrances which prevent the normal man from carrying out …
1912 · PDF PAGE 96
… is merely the wretched plebeian Pali corruption of it.1 There are many kinds of Samadhi.2 Some auf/2073 consider Alma- dars/zana, z'lze Universe as a single plzenomenon wir/zeu! conditions, to öe z‘lzefirsz‘real Samao’nz'. If we accept this, we must relegate many less exalted states to the class of Dhyana. Patanjali enumerates a number of these states: to perform these on different things gives different 1 The vulgarism and provincialism of the Buddhist canon is infinitely repulsive to all nice minds; and the attempt to use the terms of an ego-c…