"Which, seated between the two eyebrows, illumines the universe, like fire, or lightning, or the sun:
"Perfect beatitude, unalloyed, absolute, the essence whereof is luminousness, undifferenced,
"From which all troubles are fallen away, knowable, tranquil, self-recognised:
"Fixing the internal organ upon that, seeing the whole universe manifested, made of pure intelligence,
"The aspirant even in this life attains to the absolute, his bondage to works annulled."
A Vedic text also declares: That is Rasa (mercury), having obtained this he becomes beatitude.
Thus, then, it has been shown that mercury alone is the means of passing beyond the burden of transmigratory pains. And conformably we have a verse which sets forth the identity between mercury and the supreme self—
"May that mercury, which is the very self, preserve us from dejection and from the terrors of metempsychosis,
"Which is naturally to be applied again and again by those that aspire to liberation from the enveloping illusion,
"Which perfected endures, which plays not again when the soul awakes,