The world is through them alone and for them alone; man must grow of himself towards the light as the lotus grows out of the mud.

So thought Balthasar, and felt that life was a failure.
In such wisdom the faith of Orientals lives and moves and has its being.

If man honestly aspires to higher things and tortures his flesh, it may go better with him in another life.

For he must be born again many times, and must torture his body until it shrivels up, is freed from sin, and is without desires.

Then the soul is released and is not born again, for Nirvana, the last goal, is reached.