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THE PATH OF NIRVANA OR LIBERATION 115
vijnana samuda yo, sankara nirodho, vijnana-nirodho ayameva atthangiko maggo vijnana nirodha-gamini pati pada.”
(A right believer) knows the (impure) consciousness, the cause of the consciousness, the cessation of the consciousness, the means of the cessation of the consciousness. These six are the spheres of consciousness : (1) consciousness due to eye (2) to ear (3) to nose (4) to tongue (5) to body and (6) to mind. Rise of mentations is the cause of consciousness, cessation of mentations is the cessation of consciousness. The eight-fold way is the means of cessation of consciousness.
Note.--Here sankhâra is translated as mentations, while Woodward in his book “ Some Sayings of the Buddha" translates sankhâra as activities which make karmas. It appears that this sankhâra or sanskara is the link of acquisition of impure) consciousness in the fresh body. This sanskhara may be taken to be the group of past karmas.
संखारंच पजानाति संखारसमुदयंच पजानाति संखार निरोधंच पजानाति संखार निरोध गामिनी पटिपदंच पजानाति तयो इमे संखार (१) काय संखार (२) वाचि संखार (३) चित्त संखार अविजसमुदया संखार समुदयो अविजनिरोध संखार निरोधो अयमेव अटुंगीको मग्गो संखारनिरोध गामिनी पटिपदा.
(14) “Sankhârancha pajânâti, sankhâra-samudayancha pajânâti, sankhâra-nirodhancha pajânáti,
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