In this world and in worlds to be
Nought can surpass ecstatic joy:
To holy calm a devotee,
Himself unharmed, will none annoy.

[102] Then he went into the forest and adopted the ascetic life of a Rishi and developed the higher knowledge born of meditation, and became destined to birth in the Brahma-World.

The Master, having ended his lesson, identified the Birth: "At that time I myself was the family priest."

Footnotes

^66:1 No. 86, Vol. i., and No. 290, Vol. ii.

^67:1 Compare Sankhya Aphorisms, iv. 11. Mahabharata, xii. 6447.