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LIGHT ON THB PATH 39 hilosopher; those whose lukewarnyness lakes them mere puppets, not strong nough to face the realities of existence. Vhen pain or sorrow has worn out the eenness of suffering, the result is a lethrgy not unlike that which accompanies old age, as it is usually experienced hy men and women. Such a condition makes che entrance to the Path impossible, hecause the first step is one of difficulty and needs a strong man full of psychic and physical vigour to attempt it.
It is a truth that, as Edgar Allan Poe said, the cyes are the windows for the soul, the windows of that haunted palace in which it dwells. This is the ver nearest interpretation into ordinary langurge of the meaning of the text. olf grief, dismay, disappointment or plea! sure can shalie the soul so that it loses its fixed hold on the can spirit which inspires it, and the moisture of life breaks forth, drowning knowledge in sensation,
