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(d ) This birth is prevented
by Yoga .
And as , on the
one hand , it
is
so hard to drive away the
thought
we
would
fain
be
rid
of ;
so ,
upon
the
other ,
the
pleasant
imaginations
which
we
would
so
gladly
retain
are , sooner
or later ,
jostled away by the crowd
of
claimants for birth (d ) into the
world of consciousness
; which
hover as a sort of psychical
possibilities , or inverse ghosts
the
bodily
presentments
of
spiritual
phenomena
to be , in
the
limbo
of
the
brain .
To
that form of desire which
is
called
“ attention
, ” the
train
of thought ,
held
fast,
for
a
time , in the desired direction ,
seems
ever striving
to get on
to
another
line (e), and
the
junctions
and sidings are
so
multitudinous . 1
(e)
This
is
overcome
by
Yoga .
Huxley , like
Hume , diagnosed
with
an almost in
credible minuteness
all
the
symptoms
of
this mental
unstability
,
but could not
in
all
the wonders
of
their
laboratories
,
and
in
all
the
wisdom
of
their
pharma
copoeia
,
discover
a
single
or
certain cure
;
and
yet
,
strange
to
say
,
it
is
within
the
grasp
of
all
from the
most ignorant
clodhopper
to
the most sapient sage
.
Now turning
back from
the present day
,
we shall
find that amongst those
,
whom we may call the divine
philosophers
,
those
in
the West have
in
their illumina
tion triumphed
over those
in
the
East
.
And
as
the
spontaneous flashing
of
the heavens
is
a
grander sight
than the watching
of
an artificial
thunderstorm
pro
·
Huxley's
Hume
,
p
.
107
.