Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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IV, 8, 84.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
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had been heated the livelong day!, and were all glowing, scorching, and red hot, would find no spot on it, whether at one end or in the middle or at the other end, fit to be taken hold of—just so, O king, he who orders his life aright grasps the truth of the development of things, and in doing so he perceives therein birth, he perceives old age, he perceives disease, he perceives death. But he perceives not therein either happiness or bliss, he perceives not therein, whether in the beginning, or in the middle, or in the end, anything fit to be taken hold of (as a lasting satisfaction).
83. 'And discontent arises in his mind when he thus finds nothing fit to be relied on as a lasting satisfaction, and a fever takes possession of his body, and without a refuge or protection, hopeless, he becomes weary of repeated lives? As if a man had fallen into a burning and blazing mighty fiery furnace, and saw no refuge from it, no way of escape, he would, hopeless, be weary of the firejust so, O king, discontent arises in his mind when he thus finds nothing fit to be relied on as a lasting satisfaction, and a fever takes possession of his body, and without a refuge or protection, hopeless, he becomes weary of repeated births.
84. 'And in the mind of him who thus perceives
* Divasa-santatta. So Hînan-kumbure, and compare Magghima Nikâya I, 453, and Gåtaka IV, 118 (where the reading is diva-santatta). See also above, p. 46 of the Pâli.
. For daho okkamati, Hinah-kumburê may have had a different reading. He renders dahadiya selawenneya, 'sweat shapes' (sic for 'forms ').
• Bhavesu; literally of becomings' (' in any of the three worlds, adds the Simhalese).
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