THE MAN WHO LOST CASTE
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work, but he wishes to live again as the same being after death. For he is a Christian.
"But why?
"To remember that I am myself for one lifetime has oppressed me. To be the same being in another life would be worse than the torments of the ruru worm.
"To remember oneself forever and ever, with no chance of forgetting, is a thought too horrible for the mind to endure.
"So what should I do?
"I follow the way of my Karma. Who can avoid what is written on the forehead?"
