Lalit Vistara

SR No.: 011126
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 292
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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jambu tree (Dugenia), loaded with thick and luxuriant green foliage, offered on that spot, a refreshing place under the shade of its far spreading branches. Here the bed of the child was doposited. A gilt canopy was immediately raised above it, and curtains, embroidered with gold, were disposed round it. Guardians having been appoiuted to watch over the infant, the king, attended by all his courtiers, directed his steps towards tho place where all the plonghs were held in readiness. Ho instantly put his own plough ; eight hundred noblemen, less one, and the country people followed his example. Pressing forward his bullocks the king ploughed to and fro trough the extent of the fields. All the ploughnen, einulating their royal lord, drove their ploughs in a uniforın direction. The sceno presented a most animated and stirring spectacle on an immense scale. The appliuding multitude filled the air with crius of joy and oxultation. The nurses, who kept watch by the side of the infant's cradle, excited by the animated scene, forget the prince's orders, and ran near to the spot to enjoy this soul-stirring sight displayed before their admiring oyos. Phralaong, casting a glance all round, and being no one close by him rose up instantly, and, sitting in a crosslegged position, remained absorbed as it were in a profound meditation." Bigandet, I, pp. 50f.).
3. Nonmargumentatire und non-deliberatire condition, p. 190. Ilore, As elsewhere, the Buddhists bave borrowed the detail of tho Ilindu Yoga to the very letter. Yogis describe four kinds of meditation : 1st, the argumentativo; 2nd, the deliberative; 3rd, the joyons ; and 4th, the egwylio. Whou meditation is confined to crudo matter, it is argumentative. Wher subtile matter is made the theme of thought, it is deliberative. When all ideas of argument and deliberation havo passed away and the thinking principlo is immersed in a sengo of abfolute happiness, it is joyous. And when that sense of joy bas passed And a more consciousness is all that is left behind, it is egoistic. These 'ideas have been worked out in a roundabout way in the toxt. For the details of these conditions the reader is ruferred to my translation of the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, pp. 17 et infra. The Chinese and the Southern authors have discarded all mention of these as too abstruse for the temper of their worldly-minded people.