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Then Sorrow ends, for Life and Death have ceased; How should lamps flicker when their oil is spent? The old sad count is clear, the new is clean; Thus hath a man content."
The fourth truth is the way which lead to Nirvana. The perfect way he taught, the noble Eight-fold Path he preached leading to Nirvana, to peace and refuge,' was a mean between mortification and self-indulgence, it required Buddha's disciples to lead a chaste, simple and moderate life, a life full of love and compassion for the suffering, erring humanity. In his preaching of the Path, Buddha may be said to have aimed a fatal blow at 'the heresy of self." His own life gives a very exalted and noble example of self sacrifices, he sacrificed for a time his right to enter the Nirvana, and worked in a corporeal life, to teach the true doctrine and law. In short we might say
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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