'Thou shall understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. Fora man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men ; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shall find full few that have Ihis cunning to learn to die. . . . 1 shall give tlicc the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit Ihec greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundament of all virtues.'— Orologium Safientiae. ' Against his will he dieth that hath not learned to die. Learn to die and thou shall learn to live, for there shall none learn to live that hath not learned to die.'—Tour* of ail Tonics: and Ttachtth a Man for to Die. The Book o/ifie Craft of Dying (Comper's Edition). ' Whatever is here, that is there ; what is there, the same is here. He who seeth licrc as different, mectcth death after death. ' By mind alone this is to be realized, and [then] there is no difference here. From death to death he goeth, who seeth as if there is difference here.'—Kalha Upanishad, iv. lo-n (Swami Sliarvananda's Translation).
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