Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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SUTTA-NIPÂTA.
But desire originates in the body, v. 270, 1099; sin lies objectively in embodiment or matter, and consequently the human body is looked upon as a contemptible thing. See Vigayasutta, p. 32.
2. And what is bliss?
Subjectively, it is emancipation from desire by means of the peace that Buddha preaches, w. 1065-1066, 1069, 1084, 1108, 838-839.
Objectively, it is emancipation from body and matter. One must destroy the elements of existence, upadhî, vv. 373, 546, 1050, 1056 ; and leave the body behind, that one may not come to exist again, w. 1120, 1122, 761. The ignorant only create upadhỉ, v. 1050, and go again and again to samsara, v. 729. The wise do not enter time, kappa, v. 521, 535, 860; they look upon the world as void, v. 1118; hold that there is nothing really existing, V. 1069; and those whose minds are disgusted with a future existence, the wise who have destroyed their seeds (of existence), go out like a lamp, w. 234, 353-354. As a flame, blown about by the violence of the wind, goes out, and cannot be reckoned (as existing), even so a Muni, delivered from name and body, disappears, and cannot be reckoned (as existing), v. 1073. For him who has disappeared, there is no form; that by which they say he is, exists for him no longer, v. 1075.
'Exert thyself, then,-0 Dhotaka,' so said Bhagavat, - being wise and thoughtful in this world, let one, having listened to my utterance, learn his own extinction,' v. 1061.
Tena h' atappam karohi,-Dhotakà 'ti Bhagava,idh' eva nipako sato ito sutvâna nigghosam
sikkhe nibbânam attano. With this short sketch of the contents of the Suttanipâta for a guide, I trust it will be easy to understand even the more obscure parts of the book.
V. FAUSBÖLL. COPENHAGEN,
Sept. 13, 1880.
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