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CHAPTER XIM ce Thion, beings who are the slaves of their desires, who will attached to their homes, their wealth, their offspring and wives, even they, taught by thee, may dircot their mind to me nunciation. (4)
" Knowing that forsaking sovereignty, sensuous gratifications, the four continents, and the seven jewels, thou wouldst issue. forth, the world of inen and gods eagerly anticipatou it. (5).!
"Further, thoa delightest in the pleasures of meditation and religion, and art not addicted to sensnous gratifications ; do ye therefore, awaken gods and men by hundreds who are sleeping for over so lony. (6)
“Quickly pass away youth, even as do unsteady and rapidly! moving mountain torrents. The desire to renounce hornú after youth has departed is not very praireworthy. (7)
" It would be most appropriate, therefore, that the ronunoiation should take place in the pride of youth. Rodeoin thy promise, and subserve the good of the culestial host. (8)
"No more is satisfaction derived by the gratification of seusuous desires, than is (thirst) allaveil by the water of the rult sea. Thy satisfaction rests in the adorablo, super-celestial, scainless knowledge. (9)
« Thou art dear to king Suddhodana and his country, and lovely of countenance like a bundred-petalled lotus; do yo reflect on the dispositiou for renunciation. (10)
"Oh matchless hero, do quickly place on the road to 'salvation and peace those who are burning in the firo of pain, wbo are shelterless, and who are bound in oppressive fetters. (11)
"Thou art proficient in the profession of the physioian; do yo, by the administration of the meditument of religion, qnickly place in the felicity of Nirvana those being, who are diseased stad over in pain. (12) *** qürokly bestow the blessings of the eye of knowledge or main and poida ihastone-blind, eyelesa, or whose sight overommet
o rk of doop delarioa. (18)
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| SR No. | 011126 |
| Book Title | Lalit Vistara |
| 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 |