The World-idea...

Anthony Damiani from Living Wisdom..

You see, the big issue here, in terms of what we've been doing, is to understand this double nature of the soul and the peculiar infiltration of the World-Idea in it, and that there are these two ways of trying to understand it.

There are two alternatives; the soul can get into a thought-free state, or it can get into a sahaja state. And Paul Brunton tries to make clear that the sahaja state is a superior state because there you reach the point where you recognize that reality and appearance are really only a distinction that the ego makes, not that the insight permits. And your understanding then becomes more accurate.

You know how Arnold [Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia] tried to describe it? He says, "The Dewdrop slips into the shining Sea."

Truly, it is the other way around: the ocean is slipping into the dewdrop! And that would be a way of trying to under-stand how the individual soul absorbs the World-Idea. But these are metaphors—they're all bunk. If you ever get enlightened, you're going to come and shoot me!—for lying.