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that the man in him is completely gone, leaving behind only the all comprehending sense of the divine. ' If an animal bites one of his arms, he is 'ready to give it his other arm also, and say that it is the Lord's will. Everything that comes to him is from the Lord. He does not shew himself to men, and yet he is a magazine of love and of true and sweet ideas. . '. 'Next in order come the men with more Rajas, or activity, combative natures, who take up the ideas of the perfect ones and preach them to the world. The highest kind of men silently collect true and noble ideas, and others--the Buddhas and Christs go from place to place preaching
them and working for them. In the life of · Gautama Buddha we notice him constantly saying "that he is the twenty-fifth Buddha. The twenty"four before him are unknowh to history, although
the Buddha krown to History must have built upon " foundations laid by them. The highest men are calm, silent and unknown. They are the men who really kniow the power of thought;
