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V, 27.
PRAISING NIRVANA.
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Not greatly moved either by loving or disliking! overcoming all enemies by the force (of his love)! the welcome physician for all diseases, the one destroyer of impermanency! 2148
'All living things rejoicing in religion, fully satisfied?! obtaining all they need (seek), their every wish (vow) fulfilled ! 2149
The great master of holy wisdom once gone returns no more! even as the fire gone out for want of fuel ! 2150
(Declaring) the eight rules (noble truths ?) without taint?; overcoming the five (senses), difficult to compose! with the three* (powers of sight) seeing the three (precious ones); removing the three (robbers, i.e. lust, anger, ignorance); perfecting the three (the three grades of a holy life). 2151
Concealing the one (himself) and obtaining the one (saintship)—leaping over the seven (bodhyangas ?) and (obtaining) the long sleep; the end of all, the quiet, peaceful way; the highest prize of sages and of saints! 2152
* Each one satisfied; the sense seems to be that through him, i. e. Buddha, all things obtained the completion of their religious desires.
? Or it may be by way of exclamation, 'those eight rules which admit of no pollution l' referring perhaps to the name 'the noble rules.'
% I suppose the five' are the five senses. The expression difficult to compose' might be also rendered the difficult to compose group.'
•Using (i) 'the three,' and yet seeing the three.' The next line is, ' removing the three,' and yet perfecting the three.'
Or it may be treasuring the one,' where the one' may be the one duty of a religious life; but it is difficult to interpret these paradoxes.
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