nd in Rasesvara Darsana or
the Mercurial System described in the Sarva-Darsana-Sangraha chap. IX.
_Marco Polo_ (Yule's Edition, vol. II. pp. 365, 369) had also heard of
it.]

[Footnote 665: It seems to me analogous to the _introversion_ of
European mystics. See Underhill, _Mysticism_, chaps, VI. and VII.]

[Footnote 666: Jhana in Pali.]

[Footnote 667: Samprajnata and Asamprajnata, called also sa- and
nirbija, with and without seed.]

[Footnote 668: Savitarka and Savicara, in which there is investigation
concerned with gross and subtle objects respectively: Sananda, in which
there is a feeling of joy: Sasmita, in which there is only
self-consciousness. The corresponding stages in Buddhism are described
as phases of Jhana not of Samadhi.]

[Footnote 669: It is not easy to translate. _Megha_ is cloud and
_dharma_ may be rendered by righteousness but has many other meanings.
For the metaphor of the cloud compare the title of the English mystical
treatise _The Cloud of Unknowing_.]

[Footnote 670: Siddhi, vibhuti, aisvarya. A belief in these powers is
found even in the Rig Veda where it is said (X. 136) that munis can fly
through the air and associate with gods.]

[Footnote 671: So too European mystics "are all but unanimous in their
refusal to attribute importance to any kind of visionary experience"
(Underhill, _Mysticism_, p. 335). St John of the Cross, Madame Guyon and
Walter Hilton are cited as severe critics of such experience.]

[Footnote 672: Cf. Underbill's remarks about contemplation (_Mysticism_,
p. 394). "Its results feed every aspect of the personality: minister to
its instinct for the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Psychologically
it is an induced state in which the field of consciousness is greatly
contracted: the whole of the self, its conative power, being sharply
focussed, concentrated upon one thing. We pour ourselvea out or, as it
sometimes seems to us, _in_ towards this overpowering interest: seem to
ourselves to reach it and be merged with it. Whatever the thing may be,
in this act we _know_ it, as we cannot know it by any ordinary devices
of thought."]

[Footnote 673: See instances quoted in W. James, _Varieties of Religious
Experience_, pp. 251-3.]

[Footnote 674: This curious idea is also countenanced, though not much
emphasized, by the Brahma Sutras, IV. 4. 15. The object of producing
such bodies is to work off Karma. The Yogi acquires no new Karma but he
may have to get rid of accu