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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
III, 14.
Coming, beheld upon the person of the reverend monk all the distinguishing marks of a great preacher, visible in an excellent degree; fixed and unmoved (he sat) in the possession of truth and wisdom, 1184
Free from all evil impediments, with a heart cleansed from all insincerity or falsehood. Then with reverent and a joyful heart, (great Brahma stood and) with hands joined, thus made known his request: 1185
•What happiness in all the world so great as when a loving master meets the unwisel; the world with all its occupants, filled with impurity and dire confusion?, 1186
With heavy grief oppressed, or, in some cases, lighter sorrows, (waits deliverance); the lord of men, having escaped by crossing the wide and mournful sea of birth and death, 1187
We now entreat to rescue others--those struggling creatures all engulphed therein; as the just worldly man, when he gets profit, gives some rebate withal®, 1188
So the lord of men enjoying such religious gain, should“ also give somewhat to living things. The world indeed is bent on large personal gain, and hard it is to share one's own with others; 1189
O! let your loving heart be moved with pity towards the world burthened o with vexing cares.'
1 In the sense of the uninstructed.'
* With sense-pollution and distracted heart, oppressed with heavy grief, or, may be, with lighter and less grievous sorrow.
3 These lines are obscure; the sense, however, is plainly that given in the text.
• In the way of request, would that the lord of men,' &c. • Oppressed amidst oppressions (calamities).
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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 |