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.
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