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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
“It is a fallacy,” wrote P., “that the Absolute must be the All-Good. There is
not an Intelligence directing law; but only a line of least resistance along which
all things move. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha, and
so its own selfishness proves its destruction.
“We cannot call Nature evil: Fatal is the exact word, for Necessity implies
stupidity, and this stupidity is the chief attribute of Nature.”
So P. argued, for the little Bodhi Satva has started whirling
within him, hungry and thirsty, slowly devouring its
Mother Mâyâ.
On the 21st of January, 1902, P. left Calcutta for Burma,
where for a short time he again joined Mâitrânanda. During
the month of February he journeyed through the districts
about Rangoon visiting many sacred cities and holy men,
practising Dhâranâ on Maitri Bhâvana (Compassion) and
taking his refuge in Triratna. (The triple jewel of Buddhism—
Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha.) On the 14th of February he
visited Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung and Bhikku Ânanda
Metteyya, and on the 23rd shipped by S.S. Kapurthala from
Rangoon to Calcutta, arriving there on the 26th.
For the first three months of 1902 no record was kept by P.
of his meditations and mystical exercises, except one which is
as curious as it is interesting, and which consists of a minutely
detailed table showing the Classification of the Dreams he
dreamt from the 8th of February to the 19th of March.
P., it may be mentioned, was much subject to dreaming,
but perhaps rarely were they so persistent and vivid as he now
experienced. For he found that by trying to remember
dreams he could remember more. Probably most men dream
subconsciously; just as they breathe without knowing it unless
the attention be directed to the act.
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