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and so forth, it is described precisely as a mirror because it illuminates one's own essential nature. There, "reflection" means the beholding of one's own nature; when there is such beholding in the form of reflection, on the wall "made of mind"—whose sole nature is knowledge—and "radiant with counter-lustre"—delightful with reflected illumination—the "great metaphysical drop enters," that is, becomes established. The description of the mind as a wall is because it is the cause of the manifestation of the great metaphysical drop.