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BUDDHA AND KRISHNA
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a shimmer of something infinitely higher had shone in my eyes.

And without disappointment, without anything of the painful emotion he feels whose dearest hopes are shattered, I caught the words of the Master—

"To be born is to die; all-destroying, oblivion's breath holds sway;
As in gardens of Earth, flowers in Paradise fade, and pass away."