When he has once realized this eternal truth, the man has entered Nirvana.

For Nirvana is not an absorption of the individual soul into the soul of all things, since the one has always been a part of the other.

Still less is it utter annihilation.

It is simply the recognition of the eternal oneness of the two, back through an everlasting past on through an everlasting future.
Such is the belief which the Japanese adopted, and which they profess to-day.

Such to them is to be the dawn of death's to-morrow; a blessed impersonal immortality, in which all sense of self, illusion that it is, shall itself have ceased to be; a long dreamless sleep, a beatified rest, which no awakening shall ever disturb.
Among such a people personal Christianity converts but few.