"Behold, O brethren, the final extinction of the Tathagata* will take place before long. I now exhort you, saying: 'All component things must grow old and be dissolved again. Seek ye for that which is permanent, and work out your salvation with diligence."
---The Gospel of Buddha (1894), by Paul Carus---
*Tathagata can mean either "one who has thus gone" (tathā-gata) or "one who has thus come" (tathā-āgata); the Buddha.
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