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lowest Lêsyâs; through them the soul is brought into miserable courses of life. (56)
The red, yellow, and white Lêsyâs are the good Lêsyâs; through them the soul is brought into happy courses of life. (57)
II. In the first moment of these Lêsyâs when they are joined (with the soul), the latter is not born into a new existence1. (58)
In the last moment of all these Lêsyâs when they are joined (with the soul), the latter is not born into a new existence. (59)
While the last muhûrta is running and a part of it is still to come, the souls with their Lêsyâs developed, go to a new birth. (60)
A wise man should, therefore, know the nature of these Lêsyâs; he should avoid the bad ones and obtain the good ones. (61) Thus I say.
LECTURE XXXV.
THIRTY-FIFTH LECTURE.
THE HOUSELESS MONK.
Learn from me, with attentive minds, the road shown by the wise ones2, which leads a monk who follows it, to the end of all misery. (1)
2 Buddhêhi.
1 The question treated rather darkly in the next three verses is, according to the comm., the following:-Every individual dies in the same Lêsyâ in which he is born. When his Lêsyâ ends with his life, then the soul must get a new Lêsyâ. Our verses state at which time the new Lêsyâ comes into existence or is joined with
the soul.
