AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY 
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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.