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have no other commencement of being after death, in any 

 form, or any place. Again, when in addition he says, there 

 is (to me) now no future Bawo, he expressly affirms the ces- 

 sation of existence : for according to his system, every exist- 

 ence, animate or inanimate, is located in one of the three 

 Bawos, i. e. «sio§)to d\otsys©c> ^6 \.&ts$s\&o kama bawo, 

 rupa bawo, ariipa bawo, and although an indefinite number 

 of Sakwalas, or systems, are allowed to exist, they have all 

 the same divisions, and there is no place for existence, and 

 no conceivable form of existence except in these Bawos. 

 When therefore Goutama said, there is no future Bawo for 

 me, his meaning certainly was, that at death he would cease 

 to exist. 



His affirmation that sorrow is connected with every form 

 of existence, is founded on the doctrine of perpetual transmi- 

 grations : however pleasant the present state may be, the 

 beloved object must be left, and a new state entered upon, 

 and as the principles of pollution are in every being, and 

 necessarily produce sin and sorrow, no other mode of ceasing 

 from suffering can be discovered except the ceasing to exist. 

 Cessation from existence is the chief good, the sole " city 

 of peace." 



