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LIOHT ON THE PATH
ignorance has become so confirmed, that now none will see with the inner vision till agony has made the physical eyes not only unseeing, but without tears—the moisture of life. To be incapable of tears is to have faced and conquered the simple human nature, and to have attained an equilibrium which cannot be shaken by personal emotions. ~ It does not imply any hardnesø of heart, or any indifference. It does not imply the exhaustion of sor. row, when the suffering soul seems power. less to suffer acutely any longer it does not mean the deadness of old age, when emotion is becoming dull because the strings which vibrate to it are wearing out. None of these conditions are Alt for i disciple, and if any one of them exist in nim, it must be overcome before the Path can be entered upon. Hardness of heart belongs to the selfishi man, the egotist, to vhom the Gate is for ever closed. 'Indif. erence belongs to the fool and the false
