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
VII, 6, 6.
is the second quality of the mountain height he ought to have
6. 'And again, O king, just as the mountain height is a lonely spot, free from crowding of men ; just so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, be given to solitude, and free from evil, unworthy qualities, from those that are not noble. This, O king, is the third quality of the mountain height he ought to have.
7. 'And again, O king, just as the mountain height is clean and pure; just so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, be good and pure, happy, and without self-righteousness. This, O king, is the fourth quality of the mountain height he ought to have.
8. And again, O king, just as the mountain height is the resort of the noble ones; just so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, be sought after by the noble ones. This, o king, is the fifth quality of the mountain height he ought to have. For it was said, O king, by the Blessed One, the god over all gods, in the most excellent Samyutta Nikåya : “With solitary men, those noble ones, Whose minds, on Arahatship strictly bent, Rise easily to contemplation's heights, Stedfast in zeal and wise in holy writWith such should he resort, with such commune?."
manence of any individuality, and the separateness of oneself from others, as well those now living as those in the future and the past.
1 This is a favourite stanza. It occurs in the Samyutta XIV, 16-18, and is included in the verses ascribed, in the Thera Gatha, to the Arahats Somamitta and Vimala (verses 148, 266).
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