XVI. SUMMATION.

The universal, the singular, and the relation between them. — Certain difficulties of ambi- guity.— Suggested restrictions of connotation. — Reconciliation between Nominalism and
CONTENTS. xvii.
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Realism, &c. — The manifestation of the Self in language. — The synthesis of discrete facts by the principle of individuality. — Definitions of Jiva-atoms and Brahrnandas in the terms of the Absolute. — Illustrations. — Essential and com- plete sameness of all jivas. — Apparent differ- ence and separateness made by mere vari- ation of the order of experiences. — Why the order of experiences varies. — The balancing of pleasure and pain. — Bhartrihari's saying. — The real significance of the sameness of all Jivas. — The converse ' reality ' of the appear- ance of difference and evolution of Jivas from so-called lower to so-called higher stages and involution vice-versa. — The wonder of the diversity of the world and the Peace of same- ness amidst the turmoil of change. — Conclu- sion ... ... ... ... ... ... 306 — 330
DEDICATION 331 — 332
INDEX OF SAMSKRIT PROPER NAMES ... 333 — 336 GLOSSARY OF SAMSKRIT WORDS ... 337 — 347
PREFACE.
The scheme of metaphysic outlined in this book began definitely to be thought out in 1887 in Benares. Some unshaped sketches of it were published as articles in the Theosophist in 1894, and subsequent years, and one portion of the scheme was written out, in some little detail, in 1899, and, mainly because of encouragement in that behalf received from Mrs. Annie Besant, published in 1900, as The Science of the Emotions. The portion published herewith, as well as another, forming a continuation of this, were jotted down in rough notes in the summer and rains of 1900, partly at the seaside town of Vizagapatam, in the province of Madras, whither I had gone in search of health. It was faired out in 1901 in Shrinagar, Kashmir. In 1903 a hundred proof copies of it were printed, and circulated in the early part of 1904, amongst persons interested in the subject, members of the Theosophical Society, professors of philosophy, and metaphysicians of note, in the east and the west, with the following letter :
" My only excuse for claiming a little of your time and attention for this booklet, of which I