Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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that is troublesome, and I do not instruct the troublesome?.”'
10. These were the words of the Master :(Humanity, of which the characteristic is) Benevolence, is the Pattern for all under Heaven; Righteousness is the Law for all under Heaven; and the Reciprocations (of ceremony) are for the Profit of all under Heaven.'
11. The Master said, 'When kindness is returned for kindness, the people are stimulated to be kind). When injury is returned for injury, the people are warned (to refrain from wrong-doing). It is said in the Book of Poetry (III, iii, ode 26):
“ Answers to every word will leap,
Good deeds their recompense shall reap." 'It is said in the Thai Kia (Sha, IV, v, sect. 2, 2), “Without the sovereign, the people cannot enjoy repose with one another; without the people, the sovereign would have none to rule over in the four quarters (of the kingdom).”
12. The Master said, 'They who return kindness for injury are such as have a regard for their own persons. They who return injury for kindness are men to be punished and put to death?'
13. The Master said, “Under heaven there is only a man (here and there) who loves what is proper to humanity without some personal object in the
* See the explanation of the 4th Hexagram, Măng, vol. xvi, pp. 64, 65,- with this paragraph ends the first section of the Treatise. It seems to be extended to exhibit the necessity of reverence in the superior man, who is to be an example to others.
Comparing this utterance with the decision of Confucius in the Analects, XIV, 36, Khăn Hảo thinks it doubtful that we have here the sentiment or words of the sage.
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