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.... The tongue is burning, tastes are burning, &c. .... The body is burning, objects of contact are burning, &c. .... The mind is burning, thoughts are burning, &c. ....
4. Considering this, O Bhikkhus, a disciple learned in the scriptures), walking in the Noble Path, becomes weary of the eye, weary of visible things, weary of the mental impressions based on the eye, weary of the contact of the eye (with visible things), weary also of the sensation produced by the contact of the eye (with visible things), be it pleasant, be it painful, be it neither pleasant nor painful. He becomes weary of the ear (&c. ...., down to .... thoughts?). Becoming weary of all that, he divests himself of passion; by absence of passion he is made free; when he is free, he becomes aware that he is free; and he realises that re-birth is exhausted; that holiness is completed; that duty is fulfilled; and that there is no further return to this world.
When this exposition was propounded, the minds of those thousand Bhikkhus became free from attachment to the world, and were released from the Âsavas.
Here ends the sermon on ‘The Burning.'
End of the third Bhânavâra concerning the
Wonders done at Uruvelâ.
1 Here the same exposition which has been given relating to the eye, its objects, the sensations produced by its contact with objects, &c., is repeated with reference to the ear and the other organs of sense.
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