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