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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ALL THE ÅSAVAS.
the ignorant unconverted man becomes not freed from birth, decay, and death, from sorrows, lamentations, pains, and griefs, and from expedients 1--he does not become free, I say, from pain.
13. But the wise man, brethren, the disciple walking in the Noble Path, who perceives the noble ones; who comprehends, and is trained according to, the doctrine of the Noble Ones; who perceives good men, who comprehends, and is trained according to, the doctrine of good men; he understands both what things ought to be considered, and what things ought not to be considered—and thus understanding, the things that ought to be considered those he considers ; and the things that ought not to be considered, those he does not consider.
14. 'And which, brethren, are those things which ought not to be considered, and which he does not consider ?
*There are things which, when a man considers them, the Asava of Lust springs up within him, which had not sprung up before; and the Åsava of Lust, which had sprung up, grows great; the Åsava of Life springs up within him, which had not sprung up before ; and the Åsava of Life, which had sprung up, grows great; the Asava of Ignorance springs up within him, which had not sprung up before ; and the Åsava of Ignorance, which had sprung up, grows great.
*These are the things which ought not to be considered, things which he considers.
That is, the practice of rites and ceremonies and the worship of Gods.
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