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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SABBASAVA SUTTA.
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past? Having been what, what did I become in the ages that are past? Shall I exist during the ages of the future, or shall I not? What shall I be during the ages of the future? How shall I be during the ages of the future? Having been what, what shall I become during the ages of the future?”.
Or he debates within himself as to the present : “Do I after all exist, or am I not? How am I? This is a being; whence now did it come, and whither will it go ?”
10. `In him, thus unwisely considering, there springs up one or other of the six (absurd) notions ?.
'As something true and real he gets the notion, "I have a self!”
' As something true and real he gets the notion, “I have not a self !”
'As something true and real he gets the notion, " By my self, I am conscious of my self!”
As something true and real he gets the notion, " By myself I am conscious of my non-self!"
'Or, again, he gets the notion, “This soul of mine can be perceived, it has experienced the result of good and evil actions committed here and there: now this soul of mine is permanent, lasting, eternal, has the inherent quality of never changing, and will continue for ever and ever!”
11. *This, brethren, is called the walking in delusion, the jungle of delusion, the wilderness of delusion, the puppet show of delusion, the writhing of delusion, the fetter of delusion.
12. 'Bound, brethren, with this fetter of delusion,
1 Khannam ditthînam.
* Ditthi-gahanam, with allusion, doubtless, if the reading is correct, to gahanam.
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