JCVAiYAXTi. 0 v n-XJLV^-i^-* A, A*

city restless with its multifarious life, there, a few days later,
reigns, without dispute, the silent wilderness. The man that
glows with majesty, today, and is the sovereign of many lands,.
becomes but in a few days a heap of fast dispersing dust.
Lush vegetation yields its place to sands ; lands change to
waters, waters into lands. The seas dry up ; the earth, the
stars, crumble and disappear ; the Sid4has(1) die ; immortals-
meet with death ; Inclra(2) does not escape ; and Yama's^3)
self, who swayed and ruled all others, falls under another's
. sway ; Brahma(4) the Parameshthi(5), has an end ; the un-
born Hari(6) too passes away ; and Bhava(7), Source of
Being, goes himself into Non-Being.

^How then may feeble souls like mine find rest from fear
of Death, and Change, and Ending ?

^Tell me, 0 Munis !, how have ye, whom the world calls
the Great Ones, sinless Jivan-muktas, Emancipate of Soul"
while living yet within this prison of flesh, how have ye attained.
to this unshakeable calm of spirit ? How have those, Janaka
and the others, whose story is conveyed to us by rumour and
tradition, gained that Peace? What insight is yours, what
secret knowledge, whereby ye are ever in harmony with others
and with Self? How do ye and they walk in the world^
without being soiled by all its mire and all its foulness ? What
great Being, passed beyond SamsSra, shall I ever bear in mind
to help me as example ? What other way may I pursue
assiduously to find this Peace of mind ? How may I realise
my own Eternal Fulness, whereafter I may not suffer from
doubts again ?

(1) The 'accomplished', the 'perfected'; superhuman beings who
live to the end of a kalpa.

(2) King of the gods. (3) God of death. (4) The Creator.
(5) Tho Supreme ; literally the Highest-seated ; also Pirm-based-
upon. Booted in, the Supreme Brahman. (6) Vishnu. (7) Shiva.