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The con- viction, on the other hand, that human life was essentially suffering and nothing but suffering had grown stronger and more oppressive. With the fading away of the gods had come heavy despair of the lot of man upon the earth. Suffering was regarded as the universal and inevitable burden all men were born to carry ; and the burden was not lightened by the prospect implied by the accepted doctrine of metem- psychosis, that after a man's present life was over he would be born again and ye...t again, in a succession of lives and rebirths which no one could calculate. The only true good was to escape altogether from conscious existence to forgetfulness. With this dark problem of the human lot many were engaged. Great numbers of persons had taken up the houseless state and thrown BUDDHISM 6i themselves on public charity. The public recognised an obligation to sustain these ascetics and thinkers, and provided stores of food for them in accessible spots. Teachers went about the country and preached in public places on the outskirts of towns.
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