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What relation to this revelation have the beliefs of the Buddhists, Mohammedans, who preached and did good too? It seemed to him that he had an answer to this question; but he had not time to formulate it to himself before he went into the nursery. Kitty was standing with her sleeves tucked up over the baby in the bath.
Months afterwards I saw a short paragraph in the Star of India announcing that three eminent Buddhists Lal Hoomi, Mowdar Khan, and Ram Singh had just returned in the steamship Deccan from a short trip to Europe.
To this day the memory of Nobunaga is execrated by the Buddhists. To Nobunaga they give the title of Bakadono, or Lord Fool. It was in the three provinces of Bungo, Omura and Arima, that Christianity was most firmly rooted.
Furthermore, those souls who have followed Bahá’u’lláh and attained this condition of fellowship and affiliation are Muslims, Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Nestorians, Sunnites, Shiites and others. No discord exists among them. This is a proof of the possibility of unification among the religionists of the world through practical means.
Into this has the mystery of Dharma turned, in the thoughts of the Burmese Buddhists, for no one can believe the incomprehensible. A man has a soul, and it passes from life to life, as a traveller from inn to inn, till at length it is ended in heaven. But not till he has attained heaven in his heart will he attain heaven in reality.
'What night? what dream? He hesitates some moments before making answer: 'The Buddha said: All beings are only dreaming in this fleeting world of unhappiness. 'Then the clapping of hands signifies that in prayer the soul awakens from such dreaming? 'Yes. 'You understand what I mean by the word "soul"? 'Oh, yes! Buddhists believe the soul always was always will be. 'Even in Nirvana? 'Yes.
The affinity was recognized in India, for Śaṅkara and his school were stigmatized by their opponents as Buddhists in disguise.
Nearly all the Burmese are Buddhists, and these men are Buddhist monks. You would never guess what the fans are for; they are to put up as screens to shield the faces of the monks when they pass a woman, for they are not supposed ever to look at a woman, it is too frivolous!
The Buddhists, and the unbelievers who figure so boastingly upon the rostrum in modern times, speak alike. They say: "As many facts and second causes as you please, but ask no questions about first causes; that is unscientific." There never was a more absurd and wild speculation. It is an old speculation. Anaximander, who lived six centuries before Christ, advocated the assumption.
It was the opinion of Averroes that the transition from the individual to the universal is instantaneous at death, but the Buddhists maintain that human personality continues in a declining manner for a certain term before nonentity, or Nirwana, is attained.
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