Illusion dies, the mind dies not though dead and gone
the flesh.

Nirwana, I have said, is partial extinction by being merged in
the Supreme, not to be confounded with Pari-nirwana or absolute
annihilation. In the former also, dying gives birth to a new
being, the embodiment of _karma_ (deeds), good and evil, done in
the countless ages of transmigration.

Here ends my share of the work. On the whole it has been
considerable. I have omitted, as has been seen, sundry stanzas,
and I have changed the order of others. The text has nowhere been
translated verbatim; in fact, a familiar European turn has been
given to many sentiments which were judged too Oriental. As the
metre adopted by Haji Abdu was the Bahr Tawil (long verse), I
thought it advisable to preserve that peculiarity, and to fringe
it with the rough, unobtrusive rhyme of the original.

Vive, valeque!