The Ceasing of Sorrow.
An jirlicle in the "Theosophical Review" in
October, 1897.CAITH a great Scripture, defining pleasure
*^ asthreefold,thatthereisapleasure"born
of the blissful knowledge of the Self," that
*'putteth an end to pain" (Bhagavad Gita,
xviii. 36,37). Pleasures are many, but "the
delights that are contact-born, they are verily
wombsof pain,"whereas he only"whoseself
isunattachedtoexternalcontacts... enjoys
happiness exempt from decay" (v. II, (^1) 2).
Looking at the faces we pass daily in city
orhamlet, alike in carriage, omnibus and cart,
of old, middle-aged and young, of men and
women-nay,evenof the little ones, toooften
- weseeinall dissatisfaction and harassment,
trouble and unrest. Rarely are our eyes
gladdened by a face serene and happy, free
fromlinescarven byworryand anxiety,aface
thattellsofasoulatpeacewithitselfandwith
all around, of "a heart at leisure," unhurried,
strong. Some cause there must be for this
generalcharacteristic,increasingwiththeincrease