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V, 26.
MAHẬPARINIRVANA.
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*Exert yourselves to the utmost, give no place to remissness, for as in worldly matters when the considerate physician prescribes fit medicine for the disease he has detected, 2084
'Should the sick man neglect to use it, this cannot be the physician's fault, so I have told you (now) the truth, and set before you this the one and level road (the road of plain duty). 2085
'Hearing my words and not with care obeying them, this is not the fault of him who speaks; if there be anything not clearly understood in the principles of the “four truths,” 2086
"You now may ask me, freely; let not your inward thoughts be longer hid.' The lord in mercy thus instructing them, the whole assembly remained silent. 2087
Then Anuruddha, observing that the great congregation continued silent and expressed no doubt, with closed hands thus spake to Buddha : 2088
*The moon may be warm, the sun's rays be cool, the air be still", the earth's nature mobile; these four things, though yet unheard of in the world, (may happen); 2089
But this assembly never can have doubt about the principles of sorrow, accumulation, destruction, and the way (the four truths)-the incontrovertible truths, as declared by the lord. 2090
But because the lord is going to die, we all have sorrow (are deeply affected); and we cannot raise our thoughts to the high theme of the lord's preaching. 2091
Perhaps some fresh disciple, whose feelings are
* In the sense of fixed' or 'solid.'
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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 |