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they do not dread works, being without discernment and knowledge. (11)
Shaking off greed ?, pride ?, deceit 3, and wrath 4, one becomes free from Karman. This is a subject (which an ignorant man, like) a brute animal, does not attend to. (12)
The unworthy heretics who do not acknowledge this, will incur death an endless number of times, like deer caught in a snare. (13)
All Brâhmanas and Sramanas contend that they possess the knowledge (of the truth), but the creatures in the whole world do not know anything. (14)
As a Mlêkkha repeats what an Arya has said, but does not understand the meaning, merely repeating his words, so the ignorant, though pretending to possess knowledge, do not know the truth, just as an uninstructed Mlêkkha. (15, 16)
The speculations of the Agnostics cannot lead to knowledge; they cannot reach the truth by themselves, still less teach it to other men. (17)
As when a man in a wood who does not know it, follows a guide who also does not know it, both being unacquainted (with the place), come to great trouble ; (18)
As when one blind man is the guide of another, the man walks a great distance, loses his way, or follows a wrong way; (19)
Thus some who search after salvation and pretend
1 Savvappaga = sarvatmaka, lôbha. 2 Viukkassa = vyutkarsha, mâna. 3 Nûma = mâyâ.
4 Appattiya = krôdha. • It is worthy of note that the Mlêkkhas here are represented as not understanding the language of the Aryas.
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