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VI, 4, 5.
ON DWELLINGS AND FURNITURE
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'Who is not touched by lusts, but calm and free from sin,
'Has broken all the bars (to freedom of the mind), has quenched the anguish in his heart,
Has fixed peace in his mind, and peaceful, sleeps in peace 8'
54. Then the Blessed One discoursed to Anatha Pindika the householder in due order ; that is to say, he spake to him of giving, of righteousness, of heaven, of the danger, the vanity, and the defilement of lusts, and of the advantages of renunciation. And when the Blessed One saw that Anatha Pindika the householder had become prepared, softened, unprejudiced, and upraised and believing in heart, then he proclaimed that which is the special doctrine of the Buddhas; that is to say, Suffering, its Origin, its Cessation, and the Path. And just as a clean cloth from which all stain has been washed away will readily take the dye, just even so did Anâtha
parinibbuto not in the sense of dead,' but of a living man in the sense of spiritually free,' compare Dhammapada, verse 89; Sutta Nipâta II, 13, 1, 12, III, 12, 35; and Mahå-parinibbâna Sutta
IV, 3.
i Nirapadhi, i.e. free from Kama, Kilesa, and Kamma.
9 Sabbà âsattiyo khetva. Having cut or broken all the åsatti's (from the root sang, to hang), the things which hang on to and burden a man in his spiritual progress. Compare the figure of speech at Gâtaka I, 5 (asattam kunapam khaddetva). Buddhaghosa says sabbá âsattiyo khetvå ti.... hadaye daratham kitte kilesa-daratham ginetva.
• Vineyya and appuya are no doubt gerunds. In a corresponding passage of the Anguttara Nikâya the Phayre MS. reads appeyya, which smoothes over a difficulty at the expense of the better reading.
• The following section is in identical terms with Mahâvagga I, 7, 5, 10, V, 1, 9, 10, VI, 26, 8, 9.
eva.
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