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ff. Ib. Principles of Tantra, pp. cvii ff. Gopinatha Ras, Indian Iconography, pp. 328 ff. See also "Manual of a
Mystic" (Pali Text Soc.) for something apparently similar, though not very intelligible, in Hinayanist
Buddhism.]
[Footnote 680: For the later Yoga see further Book V. I have recently received A. Avalon, The Serpent Power,
from which it appears that the danger of the process lies in the fact that as Kundalini ascends, the lower parts
of the body which she leaves become cold. The preliminary note on Yoga in Grieraon and Barnett's
Lalla-Vakyani (Asiat. Soc.'s Monographs, vol. XVII. 1920) contains much valuable information, but both
works arrived too late for me to make use of them.]
[Footnote 681: Maj. Nik. 36 and 85, but not in 26.]
[Footnote 682: Dig. Nik. 2. For the methods of Buddhist meditation, the reader may consult the "Manual of a
Mystic," edited (1896) and translated (1916) by the Pali Text Society. But he will not find it easy reading.]
[Footnote 683: See Ang. Nik. 1. 20 for a long list of the various kinds of meditation. A conspectus of the
system of meditation is given in Seidenstuecker, Pali-Buddhismus, pp. 344-356.]
[Footnote 684: Dig. Nik. XXII. ad. in.]
[Footnote 685: Dig. Nik. I. 21-26.]
[Footnote 686: See, for instance, Dig. Nik. II. 75. Sometimes five Jhanas are enumerated. This means that
reasoning and investigation are eliminated successively and not simultaneously, so that an additional stage is
created.]
[Footnote 687: See Dhamma-Sangani; Mrs Rhys Davids' translation, pp. 45-6 and notes. Also Journal of
Pali Text Society, 1885, p. 32, for meaning of the difficult word Ekodibhava.]
[Footnote 688: E.g. Maj. Nik. 77; Ang. Nik. 1. XX. 63.]
[Footnote 689: Hardy, Eastern Monachism, pp. 252 ff.]
[Footnote 690: But also without shape, colour or outward appearance, so this statement must not be taken too
literally.]
[Footnote 691: Such procedure has not received much countenance in Christian mysticism but the
contemplation of a burnished pewter dish and of running water induced ecstasy in Jacob Boehme and Ignatius
Loyola respectively. See Underhill, Mysticism, p. 69.]
[Footnote 692: Maj. Nik. 62 end.]
[Footnote 693: The analysis means to analyze all things as consisting alike of the four elements. The one
perception is the perception that all nourishment is impure.]
[Footnote 694: See Dig. Nik. 13 and Rhys Davids' introduction to it. In spite of their name, they seem to be
purely Buddhist and have not been found in Brahmanic literature. The four states are characterized
respectively by love, sympathy with sorrow, sympathy with joy, and equanimity.]
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[Footnote 695: Dig. Nik. XIII. 76.]
[Footnote 696: Dig. Nik. XVII. 2-4.]
[Footnote 697: Christian mystics also, such as St Angela and St Theresa, had "formless visions." See
Underhill, Myst. pp. 338 ff.]
[Footnote 698: Attha vimokkha. See Mahaparinib. sut. in Rhys Davids' Dialogues of the Buddha, II. 119.]
[Footnote 699: Akincannayatanam.]
[Footnote 700: Nevasannanasannayatanam.]
[Footnote 701: Sannavedayita nirodhasamapatti. The Buddha when dying (Dig. XVI. V. 8, 9) passes through
this state, but does not go from it to Parinibbana. This perhaps means that it was regarded as a purification of
the mind, but not on the direct road to the final goal.]
[Footnote 702: See Maj. Nik. 43. But the point of the discussion seems to be not so much special
commendation of this form of trance as an explanation of its origin, namely that it, like other mental states, is
bound to ensue when certain preliminary conditions both moral and intellectual have been realized. See also
Sam. Nik. XXXVI. ii. 5. See for examples of this cataleptic form of Samadhi Max Mueller's Life of
Ramakrishna, pp. 49,59, etc. Christian mystics (e.g. St Catharine of Siena and St Theresa) were also subject to
deathlike trances lasting for hours and St Theresa is said once to have been in this condition for some days.]
[Footnote 703: Maj. Nik. 86.]
[Footnote 704: This is known to European mystics, particularly Suso. St Francis of Assisi, St Catharine of
Siena and Richard Rolle are also cited. See Underhill. Mysticism, p. 332.]
[Footnote 705: Christian visions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise are another instance of the divine eye, which
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