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temple. Now the buffalo rubs the neighing horse with his tongue frequently from affection, as if he were another buffalo. The deer here, with pricked-up ears and his tail waving from pleasure, his face bent, smells the tiger's face with his nose. This young cat embraces the mouse running at his side, in front, and behind, as if it were his own off-spring. This serpent, fearless, coiled in a circle, sits like a friend in the vicinity of a large ichneumon. O Lord, whatever creatures have been eternal enemies, they remain here free from hostility. For this is your unequaled power.” After making in these words a hymn of praise to the Lord of the World, the King withdrew according to custom, and sat down beside the King of the gods.
Sermon (554-643) By the power of the Lord of the Tirtha, crores of crores of creatures were contained in this space of a yojana without crowding. The Lord delivered a sermon in speech extending for a yojana, touching every dialect, 245 possessing the thirty-five supernatural powers. 246
"This sarnasāra is like burning charcoal, filled with a hundred flames of anxiety, disease, old age, and death for all creatures. Therefore, negligence is not in the least suitable for a wise man. Who, even though a child, is careless in crossing a wilderness at night ? For those wandering here in the ocean of samsāra filled with a whirlpool of numerous birth-nuclei, a human birth is hard to attain, like a choice jewel. A human birth of creatures bears fruit quickly by the attainment of moksa, 247 like a tree by its desire to be touched by a woman at budding time. Pleasant only
245 555. That is, every one--men and animals--could understand as if this speech were in his own language.
246 555. These are enunerated in Abhi. 1.65-71, and Sam. 35, p. 63.
247 559. This seems to be the meaning of paraloka here.
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