A great soul and an ordinary man contrasted

Listen, my child,” she continued, “ however spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the use of the body to the last farthing.1 But the difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: The latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him mere play.

1 i.e., undergo suffering and death incidental to the embodied state.