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ÂRÂRÂNGA SOTRA.
nor do them service, always showing the highest respect. Thus I say. (4)
Know the law declared by the wise Brâhmana : one should give to one of the same faith food, &c., clothes, &c., and one should exhort him to give) or do him service, always showing the highest respect. Thus I say. (5)
THIRD LESSON. Some are awakened as middle-aged men and exert themselves well, having, as clever men, heard and received the word of the learned! The noble ones have impartially preached the law. Those who are awakened, should not wish for pleasure, nor do harm, nor desire (any forbidden things). A person who is without desires and does no harm unto any living beings in the whole world, is called by me 'unfettered.' (1)
One free from passions understands perfectly the bright ones, knowing birth in the upper and nether regions.
*Bodies increase through nourishment, they are frail in hardships.' See some whose organs are failing (give way to weakness).
A person who has no desires, cherishes pity. He who understands the doctrine of sin, is a mendicant who knows the time, the strength, the measure, the occasion, the conduct, the religious precept; he disowns all things not requisite for religious purposes,
1 The scholiast says that there are three classes of the awakened: the Svayambuddha, the Pratyekabuddha, and the Buddhabodhita. The last only is treated of in the text.
I. e. self-control.
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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 |