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band is all dispersed and scattered, so the host of Mâra disconcerted, fled away. The mind of Bodhisattva (now reposed) peaceful and quiet. 1108
The morning sun-beams brighten with the dawn, the dust-like mist dispersing, disappears; the moon and stars pale their faint light, the barriers of the night are all removed, 1109
Whilst from above a fall of heavenly flowers pay their sweet tribute to the Bodhisattva. 1110.
VARGA 14. O-WEI-SAN-POU-TI (ABHISAMBODHI)'.
Bodhisattva having subdued Mara, his firmly fixed mind at rest, thoroughly exhausting the first principle of truth ?, he entered into deep and subtle contemplation, III
Self-contained. Every kind of Sâmadhi in order passed before his eyes. During the first watch he entered on 'right perception 3,' and in recollection all former births passed before his eyes ; 1112
Born in such a place, of such a name, and downwards to his present birth, so through hundreds, thousands, myriads, all his births and deaths he knew; 1113
Countless in number were they, of every kind and sort; then knowing, too, his family relationships, great pity rose within his heart. 1114
This sense of deep compassion passed, he once again considered 'all that lives,' and how they moved within the six * portions of life's revolution, no final term to birth and death; 1115
1 The condition that looks wisdom face to face. * 'Eternally exhausting the highest truth' (paramartha). · The word for 'Perception' is vedanâ (sheu). • The six modes of birth (transmigration).
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