ABSTRACT
After these five virtues have been developed for some time, they bring about a new stage of spiritual development in which the ‘Path’ is entered and the ‘Unconditioned’ comes into view. No attempt is ever made to establish the existence of the Unconditioned by argumentation. It is represented as an indisputable fact to which the Yogin’s eyes are opened as soon as he has reached a state of gnosis which allows him to be evenminded towards everything conditioned. 100 ‘Then his thought no longer turns to anything that might be considered a conditioned phenomenon, does not settle down in it or resolve upon it, does not cling, cleave or clutch to it; but his thought turns away, retracts and recoils from it, like water from a lotus leaf. Any object which is either a sign (cf. p. 62) or an occurrence seems to be nothing but an impediment.’ 101 In other words, whenever the Yogin encounters anything made by a multiplicity of conditions, he simply brushes it aside. When this mode of reacting has become habitual, then, and only then, can he gain contact with ‘Nirvana, the state of Peace’ and can understand what is meant by its peacefulness. 102
