A human idea...

We dwell in a universe of illusion, for the effects and forms we perceive possess a stability which is not there and a reality which is imagined.

Even its time space and motion depend upon the perceptions which announce them or the mind which is aware of them.

The mystic seer's flashing enlightenment reveals this to him, but science's own reflections about its atomic discoveries are pointing to the same idea. All this has been told and taught in The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga and The Wisdom of the Overself.

But the seer's enlightenment did not stop there. He saw that the perceiver himself was not less illusory than the universe of his experience, not less unstable, not less unreal. He saw that the human ego was but a human idea. It had to be transcended if truth and reality were to be experienced.


-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2: I-thought > # 58
Paul Brunton