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CHAPTER XLV. 1. The forty-fifth subject is this, that it is continually necessary that people should keep in remembrance the accomplishment of repentance (tad bat). 2. Every time that a sin leaps from control it is necessary to act so that they go before the priests, high-priests, and spiritual chiefs, and accomplish repentance.
3. Andi in accordance with the sin should be the good work, just as though the good work were due to that occasion when they accomplish it. 4. While mankind are living, it becomes every year a further benefit. 5. Sin is also, in like manner, going on to a head every year; and when they accomplish repentance, so that it may not increase further, it is just like a tree that becomes withered, and they extirpate its further growth.
6. And that repentance is better which they accomplish before high-priests and spiritual chiefs, and when they accomplish the retribution that the highpriest orders every sin that exists departs from them. 7. The repentance that high-priests accomplish they likewise call repentance?. 8. If there be no highpriest it is necessary to go before some persons who are commissioned by high-priests; and if those, also, do not exist, it is necessary to go to a man who is a friend of the soul, and to accomplish the repentance.
1 Lp, B29 have 'for.' ? Here and throughout the rest of the chapter B29 has patit, renunciation of sin,' instead of taûbat. The outward form of repentance consists of the recitation of the patit, in which all imaginable sins are mentioned and renounced.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| 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 |