' The Avatar '...

If he refrains from the final mergence into Nirvana,

it is not only because he wants to be available for the enlightenment of his more hapless fellows,

but also because he knows that he has really been in Nirvana from the beginning and has never left it.



-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind >
Chapter 4: The Sage's Service > # 3 Paul Brunton