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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THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
V, 11.
“Of all the drugs, in all the world,
The antidotes of poison dire, Not one equals that Doctrine sweet. Drink that, O brethren. Drink and live ?!”. 11. 'And what, venerable Nâgasena, is the medicine bazaar of the Blessed One, the Buddha ?'
Certain medicines, o king, have been made known by the Blessed One, medicines by which he cures the whole world of gods and men. And they are these :-—"The four Means of keeping oneself ready and mindful, and the fourfold Great Struggle, and the four Steps to Iddhi, and the five Organs of the moral sense, and the five moral Powers, and the seven Forms of the Wisdom of the Arahats, and the Noble Eightfold Path ?." By these medicines the Blessed One purges men of wrong views, purges them of low aspirations, purges them of evil speaking, purges them of evil deeds, purges them of evil modes of livelihood, purges them of wrong endeavours, purges them of evil thoughts, purges them of erroneous meditation; and he gives emetics to the vomiting up of lusts, and of malice, and of dullness, and of doubt, and of self-righteousness, and of sloth of body and inertness of mind, and of shamelessness and hardness of heart, and of all evil. And this, o king, is what is called “The Blessed One's bazaar of medicine." "Of all the medicines found in all the world, Many in number, various in their powers, Not one equals this medicine of the Truth. Drink that, O brethren. Drink, and drinking, live!
1 Not traced as yet.
See the note above on V, 3 (p. 330 of the Pâli).
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