And so all desires were merged in one--the desire to be rid of all his sufferings and their source, the body.

But he had no words to express this desire of deliverance, and so he did not speak of it, and from habit asked for the satisfaction of desires which could not now be satisfied.

"Turn me over on the other side," he would say, and immediately after he would ask to be turned back again as before.

" Give me some broth.