The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

THE EQUINOX he will be under the dominion of an entirely new set of the type of Rajo-Guna, the principle of Activity, and soon. To the advanced Student a simple ordinary thought, which seems little or nothing to the beginner, becomes a great and terrible fountain of iniquity, and the higher he goes, up toa certain point, the point of definitive victory, the more that is the case. The beginner can think, ‘it is ten o’clock,’ and dismiss the thought. To the mind of the adept this sentence will awaken all its possible correspondences, all the reflec- tions he has ever made on time, as also accidental sympa- thetics like Mr. Whistler’s essay; and if he is sufficiently far advanced, all these thoughts in their hundreds and thousands diverging from the one thought, will again converge, and become the resultant of all those thoughts. He will get Sa- madhi upon that original thought, and this will be a terrible enemy to his progress. 4. The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real. In the word “Mind” we should include all phenomena of Mind, including Samadhi itself. Any phenomenon has causes and produces results, and all these things are below the “REAL.” By the REAL is here meant the NIBBANA- DHATU. 5. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer. For— This is a corollary of Verse 4. These texts may be inter- preted in a quite elementary sense. It is of course the object of even the beginner to suppress mind and all its manifesta- tions, but only as he advances will he discover what Mind means. Io