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THE PATH OF NIRVANA OR LIBERATION 135
senses. This flies to them like a bird. Mind is a machine, which is engaged by the senses. You should not let it go to the senses but engage it in the selfknowledge.”
(8) Ratna rasi sutra.
समाधिः आर्याणां ध्वजा, प्रज्ञा आर्याणां ध्वजा, विमुक्ति आर्याणां ध्वजा, विमुक्ति ज्ञानदर्शनं आर्याणां ध्वजा..
Samadhih âryânam dhvajâ, prajnâ âryanâm dhvajâ, vinuktih âryânâm dhvajá, vimukti jnana-darsa. nam âryanâm dhvaja.
“Concentration is the flag of the Aryas, self-discrimination is the flag of the Aryâs, deliverence is the tlag of the Aryås, perception and knowledge of deliverance is the flag of the Aryas."
Sacred Books of the Buddhists Vol. III by T. W. Rhys Davids (1910) Dig. Nik. II. Maha sudassan suttanta. P. 194. How transient are all compound things;
Growth is their nature and decay; They are produced they are dissolved
again. To bring them into full subjection that is
bliss.
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