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The holy men of India put ashes--or dust if they have none--on their forehead or smear it on their bodies because it represents the dissolution of their personal life, the reduction of all their possessions to nothing, and the discarding of all that is superfluous to their great purpose in life--union with the Supreme Spirit.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 2 : India Part 1 > # 162