"'I cannot' is 'I will not' here," said Paul; "No power is needful of thine own save will: Will, and thou canst; God then in thee is power. Consider, it is only to submit." "I feel my inmost will in me disdain," Said Krishna, "this effacement of myself." "Yea, yea," said Paul, "it is the carnal mind In thee, the primal unregenerate self Ever in all at enmity with God, Which is not subject to the law of God, Neither indeed can be; to be, were death To that old self which must resist, to live: The carnal mind is enmity to God; When enmity to God ceases in one, Then ceases in that one the carnal mind, The original man with his self-righteousness His karma, if thou please, his good, his ill. He is no more, and all that appertains To him is dead and buried out of sight Forever; but there lives a second self By resurrection from that sepulcher-- By fresh creation rather from the dead-- A new regenerate man at one with God, For to the law of God agreed in will, Replaced the carnal with the spiritual mind, Warfare and death exchanged for life and peace." Into Paul's voice, he ceasing with those words, There slid a cadence as of reverie: He seemed to muse so deeply what he said That he less said than felt it; 'life' and 'peace,' So spoken, no mere sounds upon the tongue, Were audible pulses of the living heart. Invasion thence of power seized Krishna's soul, And, 'Life and peace!' he murmured, 'Life and peace!' But said aloud: "Strange union, peace with life! _We_ look for peace only with death, last death, That death indeed beyond which nothing is, No further transmigration of the soul, No soul, no karma, all pure passionless Non-being; not a state, since state implies Some subject of a state, and here is none, To do or suffer or at all to be: Absolute zero, such the Buddhist's peace." "'I am come,' Jesus said," so Paul replied, "'That ye might have life, more abundant life.' Life, life, deep stream and full, a river of God, Pours endless, boundless, from the heart of Christ; 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, drink,' said He, 'Lo, drink and live with mine eternal life.'"