18 परमार्थसोपान fragrance, about which the Dohas speak. [ Part II After this comes the problem of Self-realisation. Of course, it cannot be maintained that the Dohas do full justice to such an important subject, but there are definite in- dications in the description of the Dohas which put us in mind of similar ideas in more developed literatures in connection with the subject of Self-realisation. Then there are Dohas which describe motor and tactual experiences, which form an important development of one chief form of self-realisation. In order to attain such spiritual heights, however, a great travail has to be experienced. This we might call the travail of unison. The dangers we have to face, the temptations we have to resist, the calamities we have to suffer, all these constitute the travail through which we must pass before we attain to the crown of spiritual experience. When such a state has been reached, it is accompanied by certain marks, especially the moral marks of God-realisation, which distinguish a highly developed Saint from others. Finally, we shall go on to the doctrines of liberation, beatification, and infini- tude, which in different ways constitute the spiritual 'Summum Bonum' to be ever attained by man here below.
