| d. Tasting. He tastes then finally and
discriminates, for taste is the great sense that begins to hold sway during the
discriminating process that takes place when the illusory nature of matter is in process
of realization. Discrimination is the educatory process to which the Self subjects itself
in the process of developing intuition - that faculty whereby the Self recognizes its own
essence in and under all forms. Discrimination concerns the duality of nature, the Self
and the not-self, and is the means of their differentiation in the process of abstraction;
the intuition concerns unity and is the capacity of the Self to contact other selves, and
is not a faculty whereby the not-self is contacted. Hence, its rarity these days owing to
the intense individualization of the Ego, and its identification with the form - a
necessary identification at this particular time. As the sense of taste on the higher
planes is developed, it leads one to ever finer distinctions till one is finally led
through the form, right to the heart of one's nature. |
