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entered into us all. We may indulge in tall talk, and take very high flights in the reign of reason, but we are like vultures all the same-our mind is directed to the piece of carrion down below. Why should our body be saved, say, from the tiger? Why may we not give it over to the tiger? The tiger will thereby be pleased, and that is not altogether so very far from self-sacrifice and worship. Can you reach to the realisation of the idea where all sense of self is completely lost? It is a very dizzy height on the pinnacle of the religion of love, and few in this world, have ever climbed up to it; but until a man reaches that highest point of ever-ready and ever-willing self-sacrifice, he cannot become a perfect bhakta. We may all manage maintain our bodies more or less satisfactorily, for longer or shorter intervals of timenevertheless, our bodies will have to go; there is no permanence about them. And blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed
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