become as voluntary Play to them, Tragedy and Comedy in
equal measure, ever balanced, one against the other.

"Holding fast this View, the Great Ones, who have
gained the lucid mind and seen the Self, roam in the worlds
at will. They grieve not, want not, ask not good or ill.
Doing all their duties they do nothing. Pure are their
•actions, pure their dwelling-places, pure their ways. All
violence of struggle, all wrong views, all prejudices, all
partialities, cease when the Supreme Self is seen ; and then
'the mind, free of desires, attains the silent, soft, and sweet
sereneness of the cloudless midnight moon of autumn.

^But such high mood is not attained without beholding
the Atma-'TaUva5, the Essential 'Nature^ (That-ness') of the
Self, without understanding deeply, without perceiving, without
realising, the Oneness and Non-separateness of all things, in
the One-without-Another, without-a-Second, the 'Self which is
Naught Else than Self al(l)-one\

"Then let men strive with all their might, through all
their life, to see that Atman face to face.

"Riches avail not in that search, nor friends, nor kinsfolk.
Motion of hands or feet avails not, nor torture of the body,
nor travellings, nor holy places. Only by conquering the
unrest of the mind, by one-pointed Vichara, helped by Shama
anda' Santosha and Sat-sanga, may cognition of the Self be
gained, and then, by Yoga, gradually comes the iTiergence
in it by attenuation of Upadhis.(1) The former may be gained
sitting or standing, moving or resting still, by man or ^od,
or Rakshasa or Daitya or Danava, whoever will make Vichara
manfully and single-heartedly for it. Indra sought and
gained it. Indra's great rivals, Prahlada and his grandson
Ball, both mighty monarchs of the Daitya race, did also gain

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