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I THINK IT WAS Buddha who said: “When all the fires of passion have burned themselves out, Nirvana is attained.” A group of elderly people were discussing the inevitable process of growing old, and since it is unavoidable, we accept it. I asked the question: if someone found a way to rejuvinate our aging bodies, wouldn’t we beat a path to his door? Omar, the venerable wine-o, poses this question:
“Love, if you and I could with HIM conspire
To change this sorry scheme entire,
Would we not scatter it to bits
And mold it nearer to our hearts desire?”
Was he thinking of his lost youth? Possibly these lines were written by an elderly poet:
“There are ashes of love on the hearth of my soul,
But no embers gleam; the fires have grown old.
Such feathery ashes, so white and so cold.”
The Bible says: “He who waits on the Lord shall renew his strength, he will rise up on wings like an eagle, he shall run and not be weary, he shall walk and not faint.” It does not say in what utopian state this will occur.
There is a sect extant who promulgates this thought: In the very near future the state of aging will be arrested, those who have grown old will become young again. That listens good, but why would God reverse a process just to please that particular sect?
I think I prefer believing, as I have for many years, that we shall become young again—in another life. Yes: “I shall build up my house anew, With stronger walls and roof and flqpr. A stronger building, and more true, Than served my soul before.”□
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