184 Tripura Rahasya
a thick crust of infinite vasanas (dispositions), it is not easily perceived. The encrustation must first be soaked in the running steam of mind control and carefully scraped off with the sharp chisel of investigation. Then one must turn the closed urn of crystal quartz — namely, the mind cleaned in the aforesaid manner — on the grinding wheel of alertness and finally open the lid with the lever of discrimination.
Lo! The gem enclosed within is now reached and that is all!
Thus you see, Rama, that all efforts are to be directed to cleaning up the mental impressions of predispositions.