Lalit Vistara

Author(s): Rajendralala Mitra
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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LALITA-VISTARA.
performed ; let good conduct be persevered in, for those who do so snffor no pain.
10. Let Buddha be reflected upon ; let the society of the virtuons he sudopted ; let delusion be avoided; constant, traditional good behaviour, and charity, and the aroma of mercy (nre its requirements).
11. Let him who constantly takes to this religion look npon pain as impermanent and inspiritual. Effect proceeds from cause without a naster, and is inert.
12. Whatever wealth exists of mine, whatever splendour, whatever knowledge and acrit, they all are due to good actions, good conduct, traditional knowledge, and disillusion.
13. Follow me through good conduct, through tradition, throngl disillusion, through charity, through the controul of passions, and through hunanity for the sake of welfaro and friendship for all created beings.
14: It is not possible to accomplish salutary actions by the sound of speech; caert for success; act according to what you say.
15. Look not for another's leisure ; always exert yourself with all possible assiduity. None can give without action, nor is anything accolaplished without it.
16. Retlect well upon the pain which you have suffered in this world. Cessation and dispassion are difficult of attainment, and the world is eternally false.
17. Therefore, wbenever opportunity offers, overcome all passions and sufferings by friendliness to all goodness, and by listening to the voice of Dharma. · 18. Freedom from vanity, pride and ostentation, constant rectitude of purpose, becoming speech and honesty, are the qualities which you, who long for Nirvana, should cultivate to clear the road to it.
19. . Dispel with the lamp of understanding (prajná) all delusion, sin and darkness, and rend asunder the knot of longing wickedness with the thunderbolt of true knowledge (jnana).