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BOOK II, LECTURE 3, LESSON 2.
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One should not think so or speak so; but undisturbed, the mind not directed outwardly, one should collect one's self for contemplation; then one may circumspectly complete one's journey by the boat on the water.
This is the whole duty, &c. Thus I say. (21)
SECOND LESSON. If, on board, the boatman should say to the mendicant,‘O long-lived Sramana! please, take this umbrella, pot, &c. (see II, 2, 3, § 2), hold these various dangerous instruments ?, let this boy or girl drink,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (1)
If, on board, the boatman should say to another of the crew, 'O long-lived one! this Sramana is only a heavy load for the boat, take hold of him with your arms and throw him into the water!' hearing and perceiving such talk, he should, if he wears clothes, quickly take them off or fasten them or put them in a bundle on his head. (2)
Now he may think : These ruffians, accustomed to violent acts, might take hold of me and throw me from the boat into the water. He should first say to them: O long-lived householders ! don't take hold of me with your arms and throw me into the water ! I myself shall leap from the boat into the water!' If after these words the other, by force and violence, takes hold of him with his arms and throws him into the water, he should be neither glad nor sorry, neither in high nor low spirits, nor should he offer
1 Satth a gâya=sastragâta. About sastra, see I, 1, 3.
