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LALITA-VISTARA. out an asylum; the inert world is turning about like a bee confined in a jar, (61)
“Iuconstant is the threefold world, even as an autunnal cloud, or the acting in a theatre. Birth on this earth is ever followed by fall, like a mountain stream, Life on this earth passes away lightly, quickly and rapidly, like the lightning in the sky. (62)
"On earth and in the region of the gods, in the three perishable paths,'' are ignorant beings turning round and round under the influence of worldly desires and ignorance in the five conditions, like the whicel of a potter. (63)
"Overcorne by dear, beautiful forins, by constant sweet sounds, by pleasing smelly and flavours, by the pleasures of touch, the world is held in the lasso of the evil geniug (Kali),26 even as a baltered dcer in the hands of a fowler. (64)
"The effects of passion are always attended with fear and death; they are always injurious, full of grief and accidents; they are keen as the sharpened edge of the sword, smeared with poison. For the good of creation abandon them like a pitcher of urine. (65)
“Tho effects of passion always trouble the memory* and heighten the quality of darkness: they produce causes of fear, and are invariably the roots of misery; they promote the growth of the vine of worldly thirst, dreadful and destructive. (66)
“Even as a spark of fire is calculated to produce a dreadful conflagration, so are these passions known to be by sensible people; they are like great quagmires; they are keen as a forest of swords,t as a razor dipped in honey. I (67)
• Tamasiharuna from tamasi tho quality of darkness, but I am doubtful about the correctness of my rondering.
+ From asi "sword" and sindhu "an Ocerin" an ocean of swords. Had the word sindhu proceded axi, I would have rendered the compound "the sword of the sindho country," that country having boon noted for blades of a superior qunlity. Rhetorically, this meaning would be better.
# The senso my he that the sharpness is so keen that it onts without causing any sensation of prin, or a sensation of slothing, or that the razor is temperod in honey and therefore very sharp. I am not aware of any proces
