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BUDDHISM
113 (g) It is by such prolonged self-culture, by the breaking of ten fetters doubt, sensuality etc.8 that one can at last obtain निर्वाण.
Dhammapada says: “There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey and abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides and thrown off all. fetters. They depart with their thoughts well collected, they are not happy within abode. Like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house and home. Tranquil is his thought, tranquil are his word and deed who has been freed by true knowledge, who has become a tranquil man.”
It was generally believed that Fafor meant final extinction and death, and Prof. Max Muller was the first to point out what most scholars have now accepted (viz.] that Fator does not mean death but only the extinction of the sinful condition of mind, that thirst for life and its pleasure which brings on new births.
3. चत्तारो इद्धिपादा 4. Poa 5. fegefa 6. Fair 7. 378 Tifa Gandhi's separate enumeration of these seven also follows that of this text. However, instead of saying “ The five moral powers and five organs of spiritual sense are faith etc.” he should say “The five moral powers, five organs of spiritual sense and seven kinds of wisdom are faith etc."; again, this list beginning with faith' should contain 9 rather than 8 entries, an English equivalent of 9001 (skt. 451) coming after contemplation. The fact is that faith, energy, thought, contemplation and 991' are both the five moral powers and the five organs of spiritual sense while the seven kinds of wisdom are 'energy, thought, contempla
tion, investigation, joy, repose, serenity.' 8. In the language of Abhidhammathasangaho 'T Hagafa!
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