Ebook: The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh)

The contents of the book are perhaps as enigmatic as the title. They consist of short dialogues and aphoristic meditations which are by no means easy reading; but which nevertheless deserve careful study. Perhaps the book should be more often on the knee than in the hand. The one fundamental thought which recurs throughout the book and its predecessor volumes, All Else is Bondage and The Open Secret, is best expressed in one of the short meditations contained in the latter volume.

What is the use of looking outside,
All you will see is objects! Turn round and look within.
Shall I then see subject instead?
If you did you would be looking at an object.
An object is such in whatever direction you look.
Shall I not see myself?
You cannot see what is not there!
What, then, shall I see?
Perhaps you may see the absence of yourself,
Which is what is looking. It has been called ‘‘the Void.” Aryan Path

... the author of this remarkable collection of aphorisms and dialogues stretches the mind of the reader till it begins to snap and he is ready to join Wei Wu Wei in his crusade “to attend our own funeral”. Vedanta Kerart