"I have lived for twenty years among a subdued and so-called
inferior race, but I have learned to love them instead of despising
them."
"Very likely I have inherited the feeling from my mother, who was
very timid of other people, and given to mysticism."
"Is it not rather your reading? The unhappy Schopenhauer?"
Wilhelm smiled a little.
"I am above all things an admirer of Schopenhauer, although his
explanation of the mysteries of the world through the will is a
joke. What he has written about the main teachings of Buddhism has
influenced me very much."
"I see where you have got to--'Maja Nirvana'"
Wilhelm nodded.
"That is all a fraud," Schrotter broke out, so that Bhani, who never
saw him violent, looked up frightened. "I know Indians who have
talked endlessly to learned pandits on these questions, and have
explained the real ideas of Maja Nirvana to me. It is
incomprehensible that people can misuse words on this subject as
they do in Europe. Nirvana is not what European Buddhists appear to
believe--an absolute negation--a cessation of consciousness and
desire; but, on the contrary, it is the highest consciousness, the
expansion of individual being into universal existence. Here is the
Indian seer's conception: the most limited individuality cares only
for his own 'ego.
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