Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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CHAPTER XXV, 5-XXVII, 2.
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supreme, most brilliant, most fragrant, and most pure, most supplied with beautiful existences, most desirable, and most good, and the place and abode of the sacred beings (yazdâ no). 3. And in it are all comfort, pleasure, joy, happiness (vasidagih), and welfare, more and better even than the greatest and supremest welfare and pleasure in the world ; and there is no want, pain, distress, or discomfort whatever in it; and its pleasantness and the welfare of the angels are from that constantly-beneficial place (gas), the full and undiminishable space (gũng)', the good and boundless world.
4. And the freedom of the heavenly from danger from evil in heaven is like unto their freedom from disturbance, and the coming of the good angels is like unto the heavenly ones' own good works provided. 5. This prosperity (freh-hasto) and welfare of the spiritual existence is more than that of the world, as much as that which is unlimited and everlasting is more than that which is limited and demoniacal (sêdâniko).
Chapter XXVII. 1. The twenty-sixth question is that which you ask thus: How are the nature of hell, and the pain, discomfort”, punishment, and stench of hell ?
2. The reply is this, that it is sunken, deep, and descending, most dark, most stinking, and most terrible, most supplied with wretched existences (anazidâ ntům), and most bad, the place and cave
See Chap. XXXI, 24.
? Or 'ingloriousness.'
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