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36 LIGHT ON THE PATH
No man desires to see that light which illumines the spaceless soul until . pain and sorrow and despair have driven him away fron the life of ordinary humanity. First he wears out pleasure, then he wears out pain--till, at last, his eyes become incapable of tears.
This is a truism, althojigh I know perfectly well that it will meet with a vehe. ment denial from many who are in sympathy with thoughts which spring from the inner life. To 'see with the astra! sense of sight is a form of activity which it in difficult for us to understand imme diately. The scientist knows very well what a miracle is achieved by each chik that is born into the world, when it firs conquers its eyesight and compels it ti obey its brain. An equal miracle is per formed with each sense certainly, but thi ordering of sight is perhaps the mo: stupendous effort. Yet the child doe it almost unconsciously, by force of th
