We do not withdraw from experience
but we draw from Experience the _lesson_--the hidden wisdom of the
initiate.
_Meditate upon these sutras._
"He who, after he has attained, is wholly free from self, is set in a cloud
of holiness which is called Illumination. This is the true spiritual
consciousness."
This aphorism is self-explanatory. He who attains illumination, and
afterward lives and acts from the inner consciousness--the _spiritual man_,
is free from the desires of the sense-conscious life, with its consequent
disappointments; he sees everything from the spiritual, rather than the
mental point of view, and understands the phrase "and behold, all was
good."
"_Thereon comes surcease from sorrow and the burden of toil._"
The one who has attained cosmic consciousness, acting always from the Self,
and not from personal desires, is set free from karma; he has fulfilled the
cycle; he makes no more bondage for himself; he is free and is already
immortal.
"When that condition of consciousness is reached, which is far-reaching,
and not confined to the body, which is outside the body and not conditioned
by it, then the veil which conceals the light is worn away.
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