Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c7.s1.t3.5

c7.s1.t3.5

The thought that new wanderings, new repetitions of death and re-birth await the soul after death, are wholly foreign to the ancient times in which the hymns of the Rig Veda are sung. Men can talk of the habitations of the happy, where in Yama’s kingdom those who have trodden the dark way of death enjoy everlasting pleasures—