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… Unconscious, when you work the best, I carry on one step firm-pressed Further than you the path, and you For all my trouble, comment : “True ! “Auto-hypnosis. Very quaint !”53 No one supposes me a Saint—54 Some Saints to wrath would be inclined With such a provocation pecked ! But I remember and reflect That anger makes a person blind, And my own “Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. But then you argue, and with sense; “I have this worthy evidence That things are real, since I cease The paint…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…ery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As your this fabric of mine own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll47 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. And now (I’ll quote you scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 107
…s t) have the opportunity. In any case what the Eas terns call “ one- pointedness” is an essential prelim inary to even early s tages of true m editation. And iron will-power is a still earlier qualifica- tion. By meditation I do not mean merely “thinking about” any thing, however pro- foundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. Now true m agical cerem ony is entirely directed to attain this end, and form s a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not al…
1904 · PDF PAGE 112
…sava Sutta, 10. “In him , thus unwisely consider ing, ther e springs up one or other of the six (absurd) notions. “As something real and true he gets the notion, ‘I have a self.’ “As something real and true he gets the notion, ‘I have not a self.’ “As something real and true he gets the notion, ‘By my self, I am conscious of my self.’ “As something r eal and tr ue he gets the notion, ‘By my self, I am conscious of m y non-self.’ “Or again, he gets the notion, ‘This soul of mine can be perceived, it has exper ienced the r esult of good or evil a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…seous mess of medieval superstition, and we may just as well have vital principle and creative power as not, for Science cannot help us. True, if we do not use all the methods at our disposal! But we go bey ond. We admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to illusion and inaccuracy of any sort. So were the early determ inations of s pecific heat. Even biologists have erred. But to the true scientist every failure is a stepping- stone to s uccess; every m istake is the key to a new truth. And the history of our Science is the hi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 121
…est a great Buddhist society is built up of m en of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lie s, there is then an awakening, a true redem ption, of the weary and forgetful Empires of the East. X THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH To return from our little digression to the original plan of our essay . It is time to note the “Noble Eightfold Path,” referred to and its consideration deferred, in Sec-tion III. In this Fourth Noble Truth we approach the true direction of Buddhism; progress is but another word for change; is it possible to move in a…
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… poet’s faith is still strong : wound up as his muse is to tragedy, he retains in Edmund the sublime heroism, the simple honesty, of the true Christian ; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, “I was contracted to them both : all three Now marry in an instant——” At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“I pant for life : some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature. 1 Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle ; for my…
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
…ght On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri ! So may She Illume our minds ! So mote it be ! 795 800 805 810 815 Christian mystics not true Christians. What think ye of Crowley ? His interlo- cuter dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. Aum !
1904 · PDF PAGE 106
…he consciousness of the Absolute- wala1 is really extended infinitely rather than diminished infinitely, as he will h imself assure you. True, Hegel say s: “Pure being is pure nothing !” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites,2 cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute ! May be i ts joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0 0 and finity are phas es of an iden-tical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 109
… of Bhuddism have been summed up by the Buddha himself. To me, of course, what the Buddha said or did not say is im material; a thing is true or not true, whoever said it. We believe Mr. Savage Landor when he affirms that Lhassa is an im portant town in Tibet. Where only probabilities are concerned we are of cours e influenced by the moral char- acter and mental attainments of the s peaker, 1 See Childers, Pali Dictionary, s.v. Nibbana.
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…mpus in a nutshell ! I Have a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true ! In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosohers agree ; Claim that the truth must so intend, Explain at once all agony Of doubt, make people comprehend 350 355 260 365 370 375 380 385 The Advaitist position. Mind’s superior functions. Does truth make itself in- stantly appa- rent ? Not reason.
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
… ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times—what a thumping trout ! (This is the only true fish-story I ever heard—give God the glory !) The things seems cruel now, of course. Still, it’s a grand case of God’s force ! But, modern Christians, do you dare With common prudence to compare The efficacity of prayer ? Who will affirm of Christian sages That prayer can alter averages ? The individual case allows Some chance to operate, and thus Destroys its value quite for us. So that is why I knit my …
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…erium’s brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn to pieces By knowledge : nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two year…
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…? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s ? How many are Hegelians ? This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason.45 After long years, too, in thy season Bloom, Concentration’s midnight flower ! After much practice to this end 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 Thing at a time—suppose, the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh’ !)46 And …
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…les stood And see the Master float away Into that cloudlet heavenly-hued Receiving him from mortal sight. Which of his sayings prove the true, Lightning-bescrawled athwart the blue ? I say not, Which in hearts aright Are treasured ? but, What after ages Engrave on history’s iron pages ? This is the one word of “Our Lord” ; “I bring not peace ; I bring a sword.” In this the history of the West55 Bears him out well. How stands the test ? One-third a century’s life of pain— He lives, he dies, he lives again, And rises to eternal rest Of bliss with…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
…at some confusion has, s tupidly enough, arisen ; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some de- votees on to the true Path of the Wise, unpromising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Abso- lute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute and of course his personality is destroyed in the process. Yet it is to be feared that such an adept too often starts on the path with the intention of aggrandis…
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…d 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 annihilate The chain of causes men call Fate, So that no Sattva66 may renew Once death has run life’s shuttle through.” (Their dages put it somewhat thus) What’s fun to them is death to us ! That’s clear at least. B ut never mind! Call them idolaters and blind! We’ll talk of Christ. As Shelley sang, “Shall an eternal issue hang * Great slam—a term of Bridge-Whist. Bara is Hindustani for great.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…is the expression of a transitory adjustment of contending forces, a scene of strife, in which all the com batants fall in turn. What is true of each part is true of the whole. Natural knowledge tends more and more to the conclusion that “ all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth” are the transitory forms of parcels of cosmic substance wending along the road of evolution, from nebulous potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter; through infinite diversities of life and though…
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…ies 1, 2, 3, &c., and that this series is equally unreal if I make 3 , p, 50 3 the m embers of a ternary s cale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. If I mean “the number of a, b, and c,” it does not matter if I write 3 or 50 3 ; the idea is a definite one ; and it is the funda-mental ideas of consciousness of which we are treating, and to which we are com pelled to refer every thing, whether proximately or ultimately. So also my equation, fantastic as it may seem, has a perfect and absolute parallel in logic. Thus: let us conv…
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… stage is “There is a s ensation (Vedana) of a raising, &c.” Sensations are further clas sed as pleasant or unpleasant. When this is the true intuitive instantaneous testimony of consciousness (so that “There is a raising, &c.” is rejected as a palpable lie),1 we procede to Sañña, perception. “There is a perception of a (pleas ant or unpleasant) sensation of a raising, &c.” When this has becom e intuitive—why ! here’s a strange result ! The emotions of pain and pleasure have vanished. They are subincluded in the lesser skandha of Vedana, and Sa…