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VI PRAPATHAKA, 34.
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place1, thus do the thoughts, when all activity ceases, become quiet in their place.
(2) Even in a mind which loves the truth and has gone to rest in itself there arise, when it is deluded by the objects of sense, wrongs resulting from former acts*.
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(3) For thoughts alone cause the round of births; let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinks, that he is: this is the old secret".
(4) By the serenity of his thoughts a man blots out all actions, whether good or bad.. Dwelling within his Self with serene thoughts, he obtains imperishable happiness.
(5) If the thoughts of a man were so fixed on Brahman as they are on the things of this world, who would not then be freed from bondage?
(6) The mind, it is said, is of two kinds, pure or impure; impure from the contact with lust, pure when free from lust".
(7) When a man, having freed his mind from sloth, distraction, and vacillation, becomes as it were delivered from his mind, that is the highest point.
(8) The mind must be restrained in the heart till it comes to an end; that is knowledge, that is liberty: all the rest are extensions of the ties (which bind us to this life).
1 Dies in the fireplace.
M. reads satyakâminah.
The commentator inserts a negative.
M. reads samsârah.
This is very like the teaching of the Dhammapada, I, 1.
7 Cf. Ind. Stud. II, 60. Brahmavindu Up. v. 1, where we read kâmasankalpam, as in MS. M.
8 See note to VI, 20.
• M. reads mokshaska and seshâs tu. The commentator says that
M. reads upasâmyati twice.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2523 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |