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experienced "Samadhi" (this word conveniently groups the 
higher types of vision 4 ) to regard normal life as "illusion" by 
comparison with this state in which all problems are resolved, 
all doubts driven out, all limitations abolished. 
But even beyond Atmadarshana 
comes the experience 
called Shivadarshana,s in which this Atman (or Brahman), 
this 
limit-destroying 
Universe, is itself abolished 
and 
annihilated. 
(And, with its occurrence, smash goes the whole of the 
Advaitist theory!) 
It is a commonplace to say that no words can describe this 
fmal destruction. Such is the fact; and there is nothing one 
can do about it but put it down boldly as I have done above. 
It does not matter to our present purpose; all that we need to 
know is that the strongest prop of the Monist structure has 
broken off short. 
Moreover, is it really adequate to postulate an origin of the 
Universe, as they inevitably do? Merely to deny that there 
ever was a beginning by saying that this "One" is eternal fails 
to satisfy me. 
What is very much worse, I cannot see that to call Evil 
"illusion" helps us at all. When the Christian Scientist hears 
that his wife has been savagely mauled by her Peke, he has to 
smile, and say that "there is a claim of error." Not good 
enough. 
N. It has taken a long while to clear the ground. That I did 
not expect; the above propositions are so familiar to me, they 
run so cleanly through my mind, that, until I came to set 
them down in order, I had no idea what a long and difficult 
business it all was. 
Still, it's a long lane, etc. We have seen that "Two" (or 
"Many") are unsatisfactory as origin, if only because they 
4. "Vision" is a dreadfully bad word for it; "trance" is better, but idiots always 
mix it up with hypnotism. 
5. Possibly almost identical with the Buddhist Neroda·Samapatti.