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CHAPTER LXXXVI, 1-LXXXVII, 1.
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living is difficult-they become sorry for enduring the trouble, owing to lukewarmness (afsurdòminisnih) in the same profession. 6. And even the sons of the disciples shall sell linen for wages, and they rejoice that it is possible to learn other callings with less pains; and thus they make them become lukewarm and meditating retreat (avâzâ hang) from the words of fresh paragraphs continually prayed", from the approval requested of the learned (âzân), and from all the religious rites they should undertake for the contented.
7. As to those, moreover, who, through ferventminded undertaking of what is ordered, request less for all the religious rites, and have not obtained 2 even that which is due to them, it is not even as though they ordered of them for the fiends. 8. And the disgrace, too, of the orderers of good works of lukewarmness is the exaltation of the profession of the disciples; and its deficient progress becomes the paralysation of the ceremonial of the sacred beings for saving the souls of the good from the deadly one (mar).
CHAPTER LXXXVII. 1. As to the eighty-sixth question and reply, that which you ask is thus: How is it good when they give a gift for the ceremonial ?
* Literally "prayed and prayed.'
* Reading ayâft, instead of the unintelligible ayådt, as d has, no doubt, been written for f.
* Meaning that the orderers would act more liberally if they wanted a ceremony even in honour of the fiends.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |