The Sword of Song

AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY 101 sphere, can the causes, subtle and coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hardly sown, of continued existence be grasped and anni- hilated, so that the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes, those which have already germ inated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the Law) his certain anticipation of the approach of Nirvana is so intense as to bathe him constantly in the unfathom able ocean of apprehension of immediate bliss. AUM MANI PADME HOUM.