It will be seen that good works are regarded as buoying a man up for a time, till, like gas in a balloon, they lose their force, and he sinks down again.

What then becomes of the virtue of a man who enters the absolute _brahma,_ and descends no more?
He himself goes to the world where there is "no sorrow and no snow," where he lives forever (_Brihad [=A]ran_.

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10); but "his beloved relations get his virtue, and the relations he does not love get his evil" (_K[=a]ush[=i]t.

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