Note 34 — I
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fakir (fakir, begging monk), Wichnou (Vishnu). About has here curiously enough taken the title of a Mohammedan priest to typify his Hindu worshipper, whose greatest happiness is to see Vishnu (the second member of the Buddhist triad and the most popular god of modern Hindu worship). In point of fact, the ideal of perfect bliss according to Hindu belief is not entrance into the heaven of Vishnu but absorption into Brahma.