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THE ETERNAL PILGRIM. 623
The Monad—a truly "indivisible thing," as defined by Good, who
did not give it the sense we now do—is here rendered as the Atma, in
conjunction with Buddhi and the higher Manas. This trinity is one
and eternal, the latter being absorbed in
the former at the termination
of all conditioned and illusive life. The Monad, then, can be traced
through the course of its pilgrimage and in its changes of transitory
vehicles, only from the incipient stage of the manifested Universe.
Pralaya, the intermediate period between two Manvantaras, it loses its
name, as it loses it when the real One Self of man merges into Brahman,
in cases of high Samadhi (the Turiya state), or final Nirvana ; in the
words of Shankara:
When the disciple having attained that primeval consciousness, absolute bliss, of
which the nature is truth, which is without form and action, abandons this illusive
body that has been assumed by the Alma just as an actor (abandons) the dress
(put on).
For Buddhi, the Anandamaya Sheath, is but a mirror which reflects
absolute bliss ;
and, moreover, that reflection itself is yet not free from
ignorance, and is «