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the four indestructible acquirements? The great sage, everywhere celebrated, was called Maha Kasyapa, 1417
His original faith was that 'body and soul are different, but he had also held that they are the same, that there was both 'I' and a place for I ; but now he for ever cast away his former faith, 1418
And considered only (the truth) that'sorrow' is ever accumulating; so (he argued) by removing sorrow there will be ‘no remains' (i. e. no subject for suffering); obedience to the precepts and the practice of discipline, though not themselves the cause, yet he considered these the necessary mode by which to find deliverance. 1419
With equal and impartial mind, he considered the nature of sorrow, for evermore freed from a cleaving heart. Whether we think this is,' or 'this is not' (he thought), both tend to produce a listless (idle) mode of life; 1420
But when with equal mind we see the truth, then certainty is produced and no more doubt. If we rely for support on wealth or form, then wild confusion and concupiscence result, 1421
Inconstant and impure. But lust and covetous desire removed, the heart of love and equal thoughts produced, there can be then no enemies or friends (variance), 1422
But the heart is pitiful and kindly disposed to all, and thus is destroyed the power of anger and of hate. Trusting to outward things and their relationships, then crowding thoughts of every kind are gendered; 1423
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