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BOOK I, LECTURE 6, LESSON 1.
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SIXTH LECTURE,
CALLED
THE CLEANINGI.
First LESSON. He who is awakened amongst men, preaches; the man to whom all these classes of lives are well known, preaches the unparalleled wisdom. He praises the road to liberation for those who well exert themselves, who have forsworn cruelty, are zealous and endowed with knowledge. Thus some great heroes are victorious; but, look, some others who are wanting in control do not understand (the welfare of) their souls. Thus I say. (1)
As in a lake a greedy leaf-covered tortoise cannot rise up; as the trees do not leave their place (though shaken by storms, &c.): thus men, born in various families, cry bitterly because they are attached to the objects of the senses?; on account of their sinfulness they do not reach liberation. (2)
Now look at those who are born in these families to reap the fruit of their own acts* :
Boils and leprosy, consumption, falling sickness, blindness and stiffness, lameness and humpbackedness, I
Dhuta, literally, shaken. Compare the dhutangas of the Buddhists. Childers' Pâli Dict. s. v. ? Literally, the colours.
This paragraph reads like prose mixed with parts of verses. But it is not possible to restore one complete verse.
4To reap the fruit of their own acts' is, according to the commentary, the meaning of ayattae=âtmatvậya.
