Book 4 (Part I)

89 a light extremely dim compared with some other light, but darkness itself. It is not the change from the minute to the vast, or even from the finite to the infinite. It is the recognition that the positiveis merely the negative. The ultimate truth is perceived not only as false, but as the logical contradictory of truth. It is quite useless to elaborate this theme, which has baffled all other minds hitherto. We have tried to say as little as possible rather than as much as possible.1L Still further from our present purpose would it be to criticise the innumerable discussions which have taken place as to whether this is the ultimate attainment, or what it confers. It is enough if we say that even the first and most transitory Dhyana repays a thousandfold the pains we may have taken to attain it. And there is this anchor for the beginner,that his work is cumulative: every act directed towards attainment builds up a destiny which must some day come to fruition. May all attain! 1 Yet all this has come of our desire to be as modest as Yajna Valkya!