"32. Q. But have not many men given up all earthly blessings, and even life itself, for the sake of their fellow-men? A. Certainly. But we believe that this surpassing unselfishness and love for humanity showed themselves in his renouncing the bliss of NirvÄna countless ages ago, when he was born as the BrÄhmana Sumedha, in the time of DÄ«pÄnkara Buddha: he had then reached the stage where he might have entered NirvÄna, had he not loved mankind more than himself. This renunciation implied his voluntarily enduring the miseries of earthly lives until he became Buddha, for the sake of teaching all beings the way to emancipation and to give rest to the world."
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Henry Steel Olcott
Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 ā 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.
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