As a caterpillar

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As a caterpillar, having come to the end of 

one blade of grass, draws itself together and 

reaches out for the next, so the Self, having 

come to the end of one life and dispelled 

all ignorance, gathers in his faculties and 

reaches out from the old body to a new.

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~ The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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