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LALITA-VIŞTA RÀ answer this recording to fact, so that I may, on hearing it, enquire abont its source."
The charioteer roplied:
"Lord, this is not a peculiarity of his race nor of his country Age wenrs out youth in the whole creation. ven thou shalt be separated from the society of thy mother and father and kinsmen and relatives. There is no other lot for man."
The Boxlhisattva said :
"Conduinnable, charioteor, is the sense of the ignorant and the youthful, who, in the pride and intoxication or their yonth, do not reflect on deway. Turn back the chariot, I do not wish to see (any thing farther). Of what avail are pleasures and enjoyments to me when I am subject to decay?" . Then the Bodhisattva caused the chariot to be turned back, and untered the palace.
Now, Blukshus, the 'Bodhisattva, on another ocoasion, issuing with a large retine through the southern gate of the town, proceeded towards the garden. In the way he beholds diseased person, dried up, overcome with fover, weak, with his body immersed in his own filth, helpless and protectorless, and breathing with difficulty. Beholding this, thy Bodhisativa, though knowing it, thus (tre-tioned the charioteer:
" Who is this man, charioteer, whose skin has lost its colour, whose organs are all out of order, who is breathing bard, whosen whole body is dried up, whose abilomen is swollen, wlio in his helplessness lies immersed in his own offensive filth?"
The charioteer said:
"lle is, lord, a pursou greatly diseased, overpowered by disease und fear, lying at the point of death; he has no vigour left for recovery, is fotaily liereft of strength, beyond help and relief, and devoid vi suppurt."
The Boilbisuttva suid : " Health is as the play of a dream ; and so are the dreadful forins of disoase and read. Ilow worthless is he of the name of a sensible man, who, beholding this condition, in pleasures and dalitance, fancying them to be good ?".
