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Chapter:-2 Collection of Examples
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"Are you troubled?", he said, "My body is troubled by the defilements, there are no valuable things in this world, even if they are worth a lot, they should be abandoned, what is the point of doing this?", the king said, "May your mind be at peace, you are capable of filling the entire universe, but I am not, I am already full." 33. The story of Nanda in the Sri Samvega Rangshala during the meditation on buying and selling. In the city of Padaliputta, there was a king named Jayasena, who was full of virtues and victorious in many battles. ||1||
There, in that city, the wealthy merchants of Kubera were living.
Nanda, the happy merchant, and Jinadasa, the righteous and strong. ||2||
Once, a merchant named Samuddadatta,
dug a well in a lake that had been there for a long time. ||3||
While digging, he found,
golden nuggets, buried for a long time and covered in dirt. ||4||
Thinking that it was metal, the merchants wanted to buy it.
Jinadasa took two of them, which were made of metal. ||5||
Then, by his own rule, he correctly identified them as gold.
He gave them to the temple, measuring them carefully. ||6||
The others did not take them, not knowing that Nanda was a wise man.
He was eager to take them, because he was a good man. ||7||
Uddaka said, "Don't give the metal nuggets to anyone else.
I want to break them, and I will give you something in return." ||8||
The next day, his friend took him to a feast.
His son said, "Take the nuggets, as you wish." ||9||
He took the nuggets happily, and went to his friend's house to eat.
He was very happy, and went to the house to eat. ||10||
He did not take the nuggets, because he was a good man, and he knew that they were not worth anything.
Uddaka, the wise man, went to the king's court. ||11||
He went from place to place, and he saw that the nuggets were very valuable.
One of the nuggets had a mark of a chameleon on it. ||12||
The king's men took the nuggets, and gave them to the king.
They asked, "What should we do with these nuggets?" ||13||
They said, "Oh king! These two nuggets were given to Jinadasa, the merchant.
The rest of the nuggets belong to Nanda, the merchant." ||14||
The king said this, and asked Jinadasa, "What is your opinion?"
Jinadasa was very honest, and he followed the rules of the scriptures. ||15||
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