Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H Kern
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 2546
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 46 MB

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SIKAND-GOMÂNÍK VIGÂR.
268. In the same scripture he adduces many things which one has to connect, and inflicts curses on the creatures, (269) thus : 'Why do mankind desire and commit that crime which I design for them ?' 270. It occurs concerning the will and work of his own hand, and yet he frightens them with punishment in body and soul. 271. In another place he speaks thus : 'I myself am the deluder of mankind, for if it should be my will they would then be shown the true path by me, but it is my will that they go to helli,' 272. And in another place he speaks thus: Man himself is the causer of crime."
273. In these three modes the sacred being gives evidence of different kinds about his own creatures. 274. One is this, that he himself is Aharmana; (275) one is this, that he is himself the deluder of the creatures 3 ; (276) and, in the other, he makes his own creatures confederates involved with Aharman in deluding4; so that he implies : 'There are instances when I occasion it, and there are instances when Aharman does.
277. Through that which he states, that mankind themselves occasion crime, they are made by him confederates with Aharman; he himself being at a distance from the crime. 278. For if mankind commit crime owing to their own nature and their own delusion, that implies that the sacred being, with
1 Texts to this effect are numerous in the Qur'ân, such as 'whom he pleases does God lead astray, and whom he pleases he places on the right way. . . God leads the wrong-doers astray; for God does what he will ... in hell they shall broil' (Qur'ân VI, 39, XIV, 32, 34; SBE, vol. vi).
* As deduced from the passage quoted in $ 269. 8 As stated in the passage quoted in § 271. * As implied in the passage quoted in § 272.
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