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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MAHẬVAGGA.
Dyad in another way," if, O Bhikkhus, there are people that ask so, they shall be told, there is, and how there is: “Whatever pain arises is all in consequence of aviggâ (ignorance),” this is one consideration, “but from the complete destruction of aviggâ, through absence of passion, there is no origin of pain,”: this is the second consideration ; thus, O Bhikkhus, by the Bhikkhu that considers the Dyad duly, that is strenuous, ardent, resolute, of two fruits one fruit is to be expected: in this world perfect knowledge, or, if any of the (five) attributes still remain, the state of an Anâgâmin (one that does not return). This said Bhagavat, (and) when Sugata had said this, the Master further spoke:
6. 'Those who again and again go to samsara with birth and death, to existence in this way or in that way,—that is the state of aviggâ. (729)
7. 'For this aviggâ is the great folly by which this (existence) has been traversed long, but those beings who resort to knowledge do not go to rebirth.
(730) «Should there be a perfect consideration of the Dyad in another way," if, O Bhikkhus, there are people that ask so, they shall be told, there is, and how there is: “Whatever pain arises is all in consequence of the samkhâras (matter),” this is one consideration, “but from the complete destruction of the samkhâras, through absence of passion, there is no origin of pain," this is the second consideration ; thus, O Bhikkhus, by the Bhikkhu that considers the Dyad duly, that is strenuous, ardent, resolute, of two fruits one fruit is to be expected: in this world perfect knowledge, or, if any of the (five) attributes still remain, the state
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