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Part II: The Inner Doctrine.1409
from these proceed loss of Memory; and from loss of Memory cometh loss
of Reason; thus he loseth all.
“But he who hath gained freedom from attachment to, or fear of, objects
of sense; he who findeth his strength and love in the Real Self; he gaineth
Peace. And in that Peace which passeth all understanding, he finds release
from all the troubles and pains of life. And, his mind, now freed from these
disturbing elements, is open to the inflow of Wisdom and Knowledge.
“There is no true Knowledge possible for those who have not entered
into this Peace, for without the Peace there can be no calm, and without
calm how can there be knowledge or Wisdom? Outside of the Peace there
is naught but the storm of the sense-desires, which sweepeth away the
faculties of knowledge, as the fierce gale sweepeth away the mighty ship
which is borne on the bosom of the ocean.
“Verily, only he, O Prince, whose senses are shielded from the object
of sense, by the protection of the knowledge of the Spirit—only be is
possessed of wisdom.
“To him, what seemeth the bright things of day to the mass, are known to
be the things of darkness and ignorance—and what seemeth dark as night
to the many, he seeth suffused with the light of noonday. That is to say, O
Prince, that that which seemeth real to the men of the sense-world, is known
to be illusion by the Sage. And that which seemeth unreal and non-existent
to the crowd, is known to the Sage as the only Reality. Such is the difference
in the powers and vision of men.
“The man whose heart is like unto the ocean, into which all rivers flow,
but remaineth constant and unmoved in its bed—the man, who feeleth
the inrush of the desires, passions and inclinations, but who is moved not
thereby, hath obtained Peace. But he who lusteth in his lust is without Peace,
and is forever the plaything of disturbing desires.
He who hath divorced himself from the effects of desires and abandoned
the lusts of the flesh, in thought as in action, walketh straight to Peace. He,