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THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF EQUANIMITY
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The kins said glumly, 'We know no device how to share another's pain It is hardly possible! Said Sulas, 'If my pain can't be shared, how shall you share my sins? I renounce the sinful vocation nonetheless for being my ancestral profession If one's father be blind should his son also embrace blindness ?'
2 ON THE PLANE OF FEARLESSNESS
Arjuna, the flower-vendor, was carefully culling flowers in his grove Bandhumatı followed him like a shadow They were very gay The entire town of Rajgriha was engaged in high celebrations Every inhabitant was desirous of buying flowers Arjuna was speedily picking up flowers in the hope of cashing on this craze of the citizens The couple plucked heaps of Karandaka flowers in a short while Such was their zeal
Arjuna used to pick flowers to worship Mudgarpanı, the demigod, the well-known deity of the region It's abode was near the grove Arjuna was his devotee in accordance with his family tradition
There was a secret group of ritualists in Rajgriha called Lalita Sıx members of the coterie were engaged in their orgies in the Yaksha's (demigod's) temple As usual Arjuna entered the precincts to make his floral offering unaware of the fatal noose set for him there
The gang noted his wife Bandhumatı behind him Their libido was set on fire They concealed themselves in a cell nearby As the florist bent to offer the garlands, they leapt out and overpowered him He was bound down Bandhumatı was now fully at their mercy The eyes and the mind of the floust were certainly not bound He was mighty anguished 'Mudgarpanı,' said he exasperated, 'Your wooden idol served to bait me thus Fie upon me for having offered fragrant Kasharpan flowers in bonquets to you when such calamity befalls me in your presencel'
It was like an attack of dementia Suddenly there was a thunderous bang The ropes that bound him were torn He
