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BOOK 2, LECTURE 4.
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a murderer (who hates) a householder or his son or the king or his servant, resolves, on an occasion offering, to enter (the victim's house) and to kill him when he finds an opportunity'. Is not this murderer who has formed this resolution ?, (a man who, day and night, whether sleeping or waking, is full of hostility and wrong; who is wicked and does harm through cruelty ? An unbiassed opponent before whom this is laid, will answer: Indeed, he is !' (4)
(The Akârya says): 'As this murderer who has formed the above resolution is a man who (&c., all as in § 4, down to) does harm through cruelty-(and this holds good with regard to the five cardinal sins :) killing of living beings, &c. (and the passions :) anger, &c., (down to) the sin of wrong belief—so it has been said of him by the Venerable One: he 3 is uncontrolled, unresigned, he does not avoid and renounce sins, he is active, careless, prone to sin, thoroughly ignorant, thoroughly stolid. Though a fool does not consider the operations of his mind, speech, and body, nor does see even a dream, still he commits sins. (5)
As a murderer who entertains (murderous) intentions towards a householder, &c., is a man who (&c., all as in § 4, down to) does harm through cruelty; so an ignorant man who entertains (cruel) intentions towards all sorts of living beings, is a man
1 The Nâgârgunîyas have another reading (where, is not stated by Silanka): If he sees no opportunity, or his proposed victim is always on his guard, he does not kill him, but he resolves in his mind : If I get an opportunity, or I find that man off his guard, I shall certainly kill him.
The original repeats the preceding passage in full. I abridge it here and in the sequel. 3 I.e. every soul, even that of a being with but one organ of sense. [45]
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