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BOOK I, LECTURE 4, LESSON 3.
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All sorts of living beings should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. Know about this, there is no wrong in it. This is the doctrine of the teachers. (5)
First the persuasion of every one should be ascertained, and then we will ask them severally: Ye professors! is pain pleasant to you, or unpleasant ? If they give the right answer, reply: For all sorts of living beings pain is unpleasant, disagreeable, and greatly feared. Thus I say. (6)
THIRD LESSON. Reflect and observe that whether you go to this world or to that beyond, in the whole world those who are discerning beings, who abstain from crueltył, relinquish karman. They are flesh-subduing, called duty-knowing, upright men, aware that pain results from actions. Thus say those who have right intuition. (1)
All the professors, conversant with pain, preach renunciation. Thus thoroughly knowing karman, observing the commandment, wise, unattached (to the world), recognising thy Self as one ?, subdue the body, chastise thyself, weaken thyself: “just as fire consumes old wood!' Thus with a composed mind, unattached, unhesitatingly avoid wrath!' Considering the shortness of life 'know pain, or what will come 3;' one shall feel the several feelings; and perceive the world suffering under them. (2)
Nikkhittadandâ, literally, those who have laid down the rod. * I. e. as separate and different from the world. 3 According to the commentators the present and future pains.
