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XVI

SERVICE:*[1]

DEATH THE HEART OF LIFE.

(1916)


UDBODHANA.

praise and adoration, thanks and salutations, unto Him, the Supreme One, the Refuge of all worlds, the Home and Haven of all souls, the Pilot across the depths of sorrow and suffering, and the Welcomer into the vast Beyond of hope and joy! Blessed be His name! Unto Him be glory that He is endlessly, boundlessly, ail-comprehensively, all-embracingly welling up and coming down in incessant and inexhaustible life! He is the spring- source, the fountain-head, of life. He is the ceaseless current, the ever-flowing* flood, the ever-expanding vastness of life He is the profound deep, the fathomless ocean, of life. We spring from Him; we hold our course through Him; we find our close, our fulfilment, in Him; we for ever abide in Him. We are wholly of Him, in

  1. *In Memoriam : Mr. P. Seetharamayya (4-1-1916).