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attained by you cruel toward love, etc., compassionate toward all souls, possessing terrible and beautiful attributes. Great among even the very great, worthy to be honored even among the noble-minded, indeed ! the Master has come within the sphere of a hymn of praise from me praising. All the faults without exception are in others; but in you all the virtues. If this hymn of praise of mine to you is to no purpose, the people present are authority for that statement. I do not hope for any other nirvāņa even, O Lord of the World, thinking, 'May I have the sight of you, again and again.'"
When Sakra had become silent, the Blessed One began a sermon in a voice endowed with the thirty-five supernatural qualities. 486
Sermon on the four gatis (82–175) “Friends, this samsāra, like a boundless ocean, is terrible, destructive of lives in the eighty-four lacs of species of birth-nuclei. A Brāhman learned in the Vedas, or an outcaste; a master or a footman; a Brāhman or a worm, alas ! any creature in worldly existence performs like an actor in the play of samsāra. Because of bondage to karma to what place of birth (yoni), like a cottage for rent, does a creature in samsāra not go ? Or what does he not escape? In the whole universe there is not the space of a point of a hair even which is not touched by creatures in various forms because of their karma.
Hell-inhabitants (86-99) The four divisions of creatures in samsāra--hellinhabitants, animals, men, and gods, have great pain generally from bondage to karma. In the first three hells there is heat ; in the last three cold ; in the fourth heat and cold. This pain arises from the place. If an iron mountain should fall in the hot and cold hells, it would melt or burst
486 81. Enumerated in Abhi. 1. 65-71.
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