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commits a crime here does not experience the result in the next world, but another experiences it, then there is destruction of what was done and acquisition of what was not done."
The doctrine of Māyā (Vedānta) (384-9) Then the fourth minister said: “It is illusion; nothing is real. The visible world is like a dream or a mirage. A teacher and a disciple; a father and a son; virtue and vice; one's own and another's; such things as appear, that is only a form of expression, not reality. Just as the jackal left meat, and ran after a fish on the bank, and the fish got in the water and a vulture got the meat, eo exactly so those men are deceived and deprive themselves of both, who abandon pleasures of this world and run after those of the next world. After they have heard the false teaching of heretics, 01 fearing hell, they foolishly torment their own bodies, alas ! by vows, etc. Just as a partridge dances on one foot, afraid that it will fall on the ground, so a man practices penance fearing a fall into hell."
Refutation of Māyā (390-4) Svayambuddha said: “If an object is not real, how can it be useful ? If illusion is such, then why does not a dream-elephant perform work ? If the existence of cause and effect of objects is not considered real, then why are you afraid of a falling thunderbolt ? That being as you say, you are not, I am not; there is no speech, and no speaker. How would the knowledge of the thing desired produce results ?
Your Majesty, you are deceived by these learned
80 386. This incident occurs in the Pañcatantra, Bk. 4. Ryder's translation, p. 413.
61 388. Pākhandin is always used from the standpoint of the speaker and includes any one of another faith.
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