The Maha-Bodhi. November 1948

Go ye 0 Bhikkhus and wander forth for the gain of the many for the welfare of the many in compassion for the world for the good for the gain for the welfare of gods and men. [...] The paradoxical nature of the statements that in spite of sutraction there is no reduction in the quantity from which subtraction takes place and that in spite of addition there is no increase of the quantity to which the addition is made arises owing to the notion of identity of samsara identity of Nibbana and identity of the being sojourning in ainsara and ceasing in Nibbana. [...] If in the analysis of the being no pemanent identity is found and the being is seen as a pure process'of dependent origination where one thing completely changes into another thing without any kind ' of tranference of any thing from one to the other as the flame of a candle in the first watch of the night turning into the flame of the candle of The second watch of that night without any kin [...] The being is not the object of sensation nor is he the subject of sensation nor is he the consciousness binding the object to the subject as the knowledge between the two. [...] At the time of the Buddha Vedic Brahmanism was already in decay and the Buddha pointed out many of its faults —the tendency to substitute the dead letter of the law for its living spirit the belief in the efficacy of ritual and sacrifice particularly animal-sacrifice and its insistence on the caste superiority of the Brahmin.