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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MAHÂVAGGA.
12. ' Looking upon this pain that springs from viññana as misery, from the cessation of viññana a Bhikkhu free from desire (will be) perfectly happy (parinibbuta).
(735) ""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 phassa (touch),” this is one consideration, “but from the complete destruction of phassa, 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:
13. 'For those who are ruined by phassa, who follow the stream of existence, who have entered a bad way, the destruction of bonds is far off. (736)
14. 'But those who, having fully understood phassa, knowingly have taken delight in cessation, they verily from the comprehension of phassa, and being free from desire, are perfectly happy. (737)
""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 veda nâs (sensations)," this is one consideration, “but from the complete destruction of the vedanâs, through absence of passion, there is
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