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86 LIGHT ON THB PATH woundt a man must have reached that point where he sees himself only as one of the vast multitudes that live; one of the sands washed hither and thither by the sea of vibratory existence. It is said that every grain of sand in the ocean bed does, in its turn, get washed up on to the shore and lie for a moment in the sun. shine. So with human beings; they are driven hither and thither by a great force, and each, in his turn, finds the sun-rays on him. When a man is able to regard his own life as part of a whole like this, he will no longer struggle. in order to obtain anything for himself. This is the surrender of personal rights. The ordinary man expects, not to take equal fortunes with the rest of the world, but in some points about which he cares, to fare better than the others. The disciple does not expect this. Therefore, though he be like Bpictetus, a chained slave, he has no word to say about it. He knows that the
