Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish: Buddha and the gospel of buddhism (London, 1916)

Buddha the Gospel of Buddhism
When the soul is blinded by glamour (maya)
It inhabits the body and accomplishes actions;
By women, food, drink, and many enjoyments.
It obtains satisfaction in a waking condition I
In the second station, of Dream-sleep:
In the dream-state he moves up and down,
And fashions for himself as god many forms I
In the third station of Deep Sleep there is no empirical
consciousness, but an identification with the Brahman.
This condition corresponds to the ‘ Eternal Rest ’ of
Western mysticism. This state of liberation is described
in a beautiful passage of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,
which we transcribe here as an example of the pre-
Buddhist Vedantic literature:
“ But like as in yon space a falcon or an eagle, after he
has hovered, wearily folds his pinions and sinks to rest,
thus also hastens the Spirit to that condition in which,
sunk to sleep, he feels no more desire, nor beholds any
more dreams. That is his (true) form of being, wherein
he is raised above longing, free from evil and from fear.
For, like as one whom a beloved woman embraces, has
no consciousness of what is without or what is within, so
also the Spirit, embraced by the Self of Knowledge (the
Brahman), has no consciousness of what is without or
what is within. That is his form of being, wherein his
longing is stilled, himself is his longing, he is without
longing, and freed from grief. Then the father is not
1 Kaivalya Upanishad (12). This is living on the surface, empirical
experience.
2 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4, 3. Compare the state of the creative
artist or personal god.
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