ABSTRACT

When the realistic consciousness evaporates in the height of ecstasy the adept begins to feel the all-pervasiveness of delight. Existence is felt to be nothing but delight; delight fills the finer being, delight permeates the outer being; the small and the great present alike delight in full. The sense of gradation and hierarchy of delight no longer persists, for in the inmost being delight is spread in its widest commonalty and utmost expansion. In this height of realization the full is presented in equal magnitude in the tiniest as well as in the largest of objects. In reality it has no magnitude and, therefore, it is possible for it to permeate the essence of all things in its entirety. This appears strange; but this is the fact, this is the truth. Division, magnitude, proportion are terms compatible with finite existence, they cannot be compatible with the Absolute. The Absolute is, therefore, present in its fullness everywhere and in every form of existence, great or small.