The Scented Garden

Concentration. 121 not practised can realize how swift and numerous our impressions are. Under ordinary circums- tances the great majority do not rise into con- sciousness at all, for one is occupied with one main current of ideas. But once the mind seeks to check all possible currents of ideas, the simple im- pressions rise into the vacant space, which is fairly bombarded. 4. “ Into one wave all the wavelets ” is the Hindu equivalent for this. El Baab, when the orthodox took him out to be shot, having dug holes in his skin and filled them with lighted bamboo-shoots dipped in wax, is said to have observed : These are many flamelets, and will soon expire, but my soul is One Flame, and will not. And there is a tale of an harlot, who retorted on some men who reviled her : “ You are like the raindrops ; but this my vul- va is One Pool.” They stoned her for the blasphe- my.