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V, 24.
THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
[346] (2) "As men, seeing its waves, can judge, by inference,
The great extent and power of the world-embracing sea;
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So may they judge the Buddha when they see the waves
That he set rolling through the world of gods and men
He who, unconquered in the fight, allays all griefs,
Who rooted out, in his own heart, Craving's dread power,
And set his followers free from the whirlpool of rebirths
'Far as the waves of the Good-Law extend and roll,
So great, so mighty, must our Lord, the Buddha, be.'
(3) "As men, seeing its mighty peaks that tower aloft,
Can judge, by inference, Himâlaya's wondrous height;
So when they see the Buddha's Mount-of-Right
eousnessS
Stedfast, unshaken by fierce passion's stormy blasts,
Towering aloft in wondrous heights of calm and peace,
Where lusts, evil, and Karma cannot breathe or
live,
'Great as this
That mighty Hero's power upon whose word
it stands.'
They draw the inference:
mountain high
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