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
IV, 5, 6.
when standing up (to beg for food). Be restrained in (matters relating to) the stomach.”
6. 'And he who has self-control as regards the stomach gains a clear insight into the Four Truths, realises the Four Fruits of the life of renunciation, and attains to mastery over the Four Discriminations 2, the Eight Attainments s, and the Six Modes of Higher Knowledge 4, and fulfils all that goes to constitute the life of the recluse. Did not the parrot fledgling, O king, by self-restraint as to his stomach, cause the very heaven of the great Thirty-Three to shake, and bring down Sakka, the king of the gods, to wait upon himo? It was on calling to mind this, O king, and many other things of a similar kind, that the Blessed One declared :
"Be not remiss as to the rules to be observed) when standing up (to beg for food). Be restrained in (matters relating to) the stomach.”
7. “But when, O king, the Blessed One said : “Now there were several days, Udâyi, on which I ate out of this bowl when it was full to the brim, and ate even more," that was said by him who had completed his task, who had finished all that he had to do, who had accomplished the end he set before him, who had overcome every obstruction, by the self-dependent & Tathagata himself about himself.
i Samañña. Patisambhida. Samapatti. Abhinna.
• This story will be found in the two Suka Gatakas (Nos. 429 and 430 in Fausböll). I had not succeeded in tracing it when the list at vol. I, p. xxvi, was drawn up; it should therefore be added there.
Sayambhuna, whose knowledge is not derived from any one else.' (Sayambhu-sâna-wû says Hînat-kumbure.) Burnouf's proposition ('Lotus,' p. 336) to take it in the sense of who has no other substratum or raison d'être than himself' cannot be accepted, in spite of Childers's approbation.
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