SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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THE FOUR PATHS. 2I 5
full glare of mid-day sun, I challenge one to see the mirror.
What one will see if he has courage enough to see it, will be,
the full radiance of the glorious sun, which will blind him
at once.
Says Professor Henry Drummond :
All men are mirrors,
that is the first law on which this formula is based. One of
the aptest descriptions of a human being is a mirror."
Professor Drummond states this Law as the Law of Reflec
tion and Assimilation, or Law of Influence, or Law of Identity
as we may call it, ^^ 4/& *%?&>.
He instances the iron which
gets magnetised and becomes a magnet &(yu*a>uisffpij> @!(g*
QGST tDQjfrQ pjfa? a
"; mirror, getting rid of its dust, reflects the
glorious light and becomes merged with it
and lost.
HOW THE SOUL MERGES AND LOSES ITSELF.
Only one word about the meaning of the words merging
and losing, before I continue the thread. I
quote from a text
book of science :
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When a river enters the sea, it soon loses its individuality,
it becomes merged in the body of the ocean, when it loses its
current and when, therefore, it has no power to keep in suspen
sion the sediment which it had brought down from the Higher
lands."
Please reread the lines in this way and the application
will become clear. "When the soul loses its individuality (its
feelitfg of I and mine) Ahankaram or Anavam, it becomes merg
ed in God when it loses its karma, and when, therefore, it has no
power to keep in suspension its mala, with which it was
associated from the beginning. This losing of self is the real
sacrifice, brought about by love. It is this sacrifice ue&, we are
asked to make as we enter the Temple precincts and the
moment we make it, our u&,gg?ju> will leave us and we will
become leisfi the Blissful Sivam.
We likened the soul to the mirror and the following passa
ges from the upanishats may be considered.