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plating we will purify our thoughts. Thus Rahula, you ought to exercise yourself (M. I. P. 420).
(5) Sacred Books of the East (1881) Vol. X, Translation of Dhammapada.
The path of Nirvana is said in Chapter XX. Page 273. The best of way is the eight-fold; the best of truths, the four words (pain, its origin, its destruction, its way); the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of me-he who has eyes to see.
Page 276, You yourself make an effort. The Tathagatas are only preachers. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of Mara.
Page 277. All created things perish; he who knows and sees this, becomes passive in pain ; this is the way of purity.
Page 308. He alone who, without ceasing practices the duty of sitting alone, and sleeping alone, subdues himself, will rejoice in the destruction of all desires alone, as if living in a forest. nl
(6) Sutta Nipâta translated by V. Fausböll (1881).. 1. Kasi bharadvāja Sutta. (2) Bhagwan said:
“Faith is the seed, penance the rain, understanding my yoke and plough, modesty the pole of the plough, mind the tie, thoughtfulness my ploughshare and goad.
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