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III, 12.
VISIT TO ÂRÂDA AND UDRARÂMA.
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And now you have undertaken the purpose of learning, (I am persuaded) you will not in the end shrink from it. The prince hearing this exhortation, with gladness made reply: 928
You have with equal intention, illustrious?! cautioned me with impartial mind; with humble heart I accept the advice, and pray that it may be so with me, (as you anticipate); 929
'That I may in my night-journey obtain a torch, to guide me safely thro' treacherous places; a handy boat to cross over the sea ;-may it be so even now with me! 930
'But as I am somewhat in doubt and anxious to learn, I will venture to make known my doubts, and ask, with respect to old age, disease, and death, how are these things to be escaped ?' 931
At this time 0-lo-lam (Årâda Kalama) hearing the question asked by the prince, briefly from the various Satras and Sastras, quoted passages in explanation of a way of deliverance. 932
But thou (he said) illustrious youth! so highly gifted, and eminent among the wise ! hear what I have to say, as I discourse upon the mode of ending birth and death; 933
Nature, and change, birth, old age, and death, these five (attributes) belong to alla; "nature" is (in itself) pure and without fault; the involution of this with the five elements“, 934
1 Or, illustriously admonished me without preference or dislike;' or against preference or dislike.'
? The discourse following is very obscure, being founded on the philosophical speculations of Kapila and others.
• Or, Nature is that which is pure and unsullied (tabula rasa). • The five 'great' (Mahat).
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