-t-r MYSTIC EXPERIENCES

Param-atma (I). That fathomless [Ocean of Consciousness
wherein the ever-rlimited world is ever-denied (3), is lost, is
naught, that is the nature of Param-atma; wherein the
complex relations of Seer and Seen, appearing" to be, arc yet in
reality not; wherein are all these crowded worlds but which
is empty still; which thoug-h composed of Chit is yet like a
vast dead rock—such are the Form and the Nature of that
Param-atma.^

Rama; ^How may I understand that that Param-atma
is, and that these worlds are not ?"

Vasishtha : ^He who understands that the world is an
illusion, just as much as the colour of blue which appears to
belong" to the emptiness of space is an illusion, he has in truth
understood the nature of the Supreme/5

Rama: "Thy words, 0 Sag"e !, are as if one should
say that the Mountain of M6ru lay contained in a grain of
mustard. How may I create within myself the belief that al]
this solid world is non-existent ?"

Vasishtha: "By long- continued stress of imaginative
. thoug'ht has this solidity thou speakest of arisen. And as it
has arisen, so also and so only may it disappear, as it has
disappeared for those we know as Jivan-muktas and
Vid^ba-mukfas. Surely thou belie vest that such are ?"

Rama : "Tell me the character of each, 0 Brahmana I"

(1) It is the Omnipresence of the Self which alone readers the
appearance, the illusion, of flight possible.

(2) The Nature, the Porm, the Essence, the Character, tpie Sva-
bhaTa, the Prakrti» (as we may like to call it), of the Principle of
Oonroiousness, Universal Oonsoionaness, the Supreme Self (which is and
includes all individualised, particularised, singularised, embodied,
ensheathed selves), is "I-This-Not", an eternal Negation, by the I, of
the This, of Obher-than-I, simultaneously with Affirmation, sup-position,
ideation, imagination, of it, without which, Negation were impossible.
See TJi* Scimci of Peace, or TTzff Science of T'he Self, for full explanation. -