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SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA.
VIII.
mastership of the Sugata ; for we were contented with a little of Nirvana; we required nothing higher, nor even cared for it.
44. But the Friend of the world has taught us better : This is no blessed Rest1 at all; the full knowledge of the highest men ?, that is blessed Rest, that is supreme beatitude.'
45. After hearing this sublime, grand, splendid, and matchless prediction, O Lord, we are greatly elated with joy, when thinking of the prediction (we shall have to make to each other) in regular succession.
Nirvriti.
; Purushottamânâm.
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