Years ago in India a Jain monk came to visit me in a travelers’ bungalow. Over the lower part of his face he wore a thin cotton mask; and as he walked up the roadway, he used a small broom to brush the pathway ahead of him. The Jains, a branch of the Hindu religion, believer in transmigration of the soul. They think that when a person dies he assumes some other form of existence, so that in his next reincarnation a man may live again as a cow, a monkey, or an insect. The Jain wore a mask and swept the path in order to avoid swallowing a gnat or stepping on a beetle and thereby killing some friend or relative who may have become an insect.
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