And this day someone said: “Boka! Say! Have you the honours of the Earth?” And I answered: “I have the First and only Fair!”
And another asked: “Halt thou a castle, a title, an exalted office, a following among the sons of men?” And I answered: “I have thoughts and aspirations, tears and trials, and these are richer than kingdoms and coronets.”
Yet a third one asked: “What possessions would you have?” And I answered “Elimination: I ask for no other summing up of my life but: ‘He tried to eliminate himself!’ This be my aspiration—to go through the process of elimination, elimination of sheath after sheath of my consciousness until naught remains but the naught, the void wherein shineth the Limitless Light!”
And a fourth one asked: ‘What is your most precious prayer to the Lord? And I said: ‘O Thou! The purest Light! Be Thou the only joy of my life!”
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