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Involved in the wheel of transmigration. The rolling stream of life goes on, And there is no continuing place for any. There is no real joy to be found in the world, For the mark set upon all these things Is that they are all empty and unreal, Liable to destruction and change, Ever accompanied by sorrow, Tinctured with fears and regrets, And the bitterness of old age, disease, and death, Even as an insect bom in filth. What wise man would desire To continue in the midst of such things as these (or find bis joy therein) ? So the sorrows to which the body is joined, Are even like this impure substance. Surrounded, as it were, with these, man lives Without any reasonable bope of escape. And so even the bodies of the Devas Are likewise perishable and impure; All things liable to desire are unreal, And, therefore, I have cast off this cloak of covetousness. I have discarded the very thought of desire, And so I have arrived at the only truth, And passed beyond the boundary of Being. To-day I shall reach NirvanaTo-day I shall cross to that shore; I have for ever got rid of sorrow, And therefore it is to-day I shall be (or am) ravished with unatterable joy. In this way and by these means it is I have arrived at the one reality: For ever free from the bonds of grief, Today I shall reach Nirvana. No more disease, old age, or death, The days of my life interminable, inexhaustible. Now shall I enter Nirvana ! Just as a great fire which is extinguished. Kundal you ought not therefore To think of measuring the truth of Tathagata, You should rather contemplate his true nature. As the great Mount Sumera, So am I resting on Nirvana, Receiving and keeping in me the only joy. This is the law of all the Buddhas. Weep, then, and lament no more !"
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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 |