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As I passed, last summer, for the first time, through the north of Scotland, it seemed to me that there was a peculiar painfulness in its scenery, caused by the non-manifestation of the powers of human art.

Blotting out is the sending out of manifestation into the darkness of non-manifestation, out of Being into Not-being; and in this way the past error ceases to have any existence and so ceases to have any further effect upon us.

In the same way as the consciousness of an intelligent being is not perceived when it is in the states of deep sleep, swoon, &c., so the intelligent nature of jars and the like also is not observed, although it really exists; and it is this very difference of manifestation and non-manifestation of intelligence on which the distinction of intelligent and non-intelligent beings depends.

Heavy penalties were prescribed for anyone who failed to extinguish his own fire a failure usually indicated by the non-manifestation of the expected healing influence. In Anglo-Saxon speaking countries, fires of this kind were known as 'needfires'.

A name here and there may be quoted on the other side, but as far as my memory serves me for the moment, it would appear on closer examination that such were exceptions only in appearance. An excess, not a defect, of reverential feeling is often the explanation of such non-manifestation of religious emotion as we may notice.

'On account of connexion, i.e. because thus only the 'balya' of the text gives a possible sense. Up. Up. Here terminates the adhikarana of 'non-manifestation. What belongs to this world, there being no obstruction at hand; as this is seen. Knowledge, as enjoined by Scripture, is twofold, having for its fruit either exaltation within the sphere of the Samsara, or final Release.