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V, 27.
PRAISING NIRVANA.
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'His senses (roots) wandering through the fields of sense (limits)', all these distinctly remembered; knowing the wisdom learned in every (state of) mind," all this perfectly understood! 2171
'By spiritual discernment and pure mysterious wisdom equally impartially) surveying all (things)! every vestige of imperfection (leak) removed! thus he has accomplished all (he had to do). 2172
By wisdom rejecting other spheres of life, his wisdom now completely perfected, lo! he dies ! let the world, hard and unyielding, still, beholding it, relent! 2173
All living things though blunt in sense, beholding him, receive the enlightenment of wisdom! their endless evil deeds long past, as they behold, are cancelled and completely cleansed! 2174
'In a moment gone! who shall again exhibit qualities like hiş? no saviour now in all the worldour hope cut off, our very breath (life) is stopped and gone! 2175
Who now shall give us life again with the cool water (of his doctrine) ? his own great work accomplished, his great compassion now has ceased to work for long (has long ceased or stopped)! 2176
The world ensnared in the toils of folly, who shall destroy the net? who shall, by his teaching, cause the stream of birth and death to turn again ? 2177
Who shall declare the way of rest (to instruct)
1 The meaning is, all his births, in which his senses or material body took every kind of shape; all these he knew. The figurative style of this hymn' may be gathered from this one instance, where instead of saying all his previous births' it is said his senses wandering through the field (limits or boundaries) of sense.'
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