Why Jesus Wept

D E D IC AT IO M AJ O R My Friends, To you, Eastern of the Easterns, who have respectively given up all to find Truth ; you, Jinawaravansa, who esteemed the Yellow Robe more than your Princedom ; you, Achiha, by sticking manfully to your Work in the World, yet no more allowing it to touch your Purpose than waters may wet the lotus leaf (to take the oldest and best simile of your oldest and best poets), must I dedicate this strange drama ; for, like you, I would abandon all ; like you, I see clearly what is of value ; or, if not, at least what is worthless ; already some- thing ! Thus do I wish you and myself the three great boons Sila, Samadhi, and Salam.