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THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA. III, 6, 8.
8. The king said: 'Venerable Nâgasena, where does wisdom dwell?'
'Nowhere, O king.'
'Then, Sir, there is no such thing as wisdom.' 'Where does the wind dwell, O king?'
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'Not anywhere, Sir.'
'So there is no such thing as wind.' 'Well answered, Nâgasena!'
9. The king said: 'When you speak of transmigration', Nâgasena, what does that mean?'
'A being born here, O king, dies here. Having died here, it springs up elsewhere. Having been born there, there it dies. Having died there, it springs up elsewhere. That is what is meant by transmigration.'
'Give me an illustration.'
'It is like the case of a man who, after eating a mango, should set the seed in the ground. From that a great tree would be produced and give fruit. And there would be no end to the succession, in that way, of mango trees.'
'Very good, Nâgasena!'
10. The king said: 'By what, Nâgasena, does one recollect what is past and done long ago?'
'By memory.'
'But is it not by the mind, not by the memory', that we recollect?'
'Do you recollect any business, O king, that you have done and then forgotten?'
'Yes.'
'What then? Were you then without a mind?'
1 Samsâra.
2 Kittena, no satiyâ.
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