THE WORLD-ILLUSION AMJD TJblK K.KAJL. an,J-.J? TJ.

Vasishtha : "It has no form, 0 Rama!, Even like Space is
it, everywhere yet nowhere. Naught else is it than Consciousness
of an object. It is Sankalpa, Ideation. Avidya, Samsrfci, Chi ta,
Manas, Bandha, Mala, Tamas,(1) are synonyms of the Seen,
and the forms of the Seen are the forms of the Mind ; it has
no other form of its own. And this, the universe of the Seen,
is all within the Infinite Point, the^Great Atom of Consciousness
(Maha-Chit-param-Snu), even as-light is in fire, motion in wind,
liquidity in water.

"The state of non-seer-ness which comes to the Seer on
the disappearance of the Seen—that is the state of Oneness,
Sole-ness, Soli-tude, Al(l)-one-ness, L-one-liness, (K^vali-
bhava). When that has been attained, then all desires of
Like and of Dislike (Raga and Dvdsha) vanish, at once, as
restless motions from the leaves of the forest when the storm
is hushed,"

Rama: "But how may the Seen cease to be? If it
really is, it cannot lose itself. And thatpt is not non-existent,
our senses testify."

Vasishtha ; ^Truly is it a startling statement that the
world (jagat), and all its <! am this,' and <! am this,' has no
real meaning. Yet I make that statement, and I shall try
to make it clear to thee, and show that all This that thou
seest and imagines! as T and 'Mine', (t! am this* and ^his is
Mine'), is nothing else than Brahman(2); that that which is
already Full expands within its Fullness as it were; that
Peace remains in Peace ; that Space appears in Space, and
Brahman in Brahman; that in reality there is no Seen, no
Seeing, and no Seer ; nor life nor lifelessncss ; but only one
Great Shanti, everlasting Peace."

(1) Error, Movement, PartiouUrised (Ego-ised) Oonsoiouaaess,
Mind, Bondage, Stain, Inertia, respectively.

(2) The Vast 'Expanse', the Limitless expander', tlia lofi-alte*