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be explained by me. Do you be pleased to explain (it) to him. Hearing it (explained), this lord of men may cross beyond all misery, so that gain and loss !, (what is) agreeable and (what is) odious, old age and death, fear and vindictiveness, hunger and thirst, frenzy and worldly greatness, disgust and also laziness, desire and wrath, ruin and prosperity, may not trouble him.'
CHAPTER II.
Vaisampayana said: Then the talented king, Dhritarashtra, bowed to those words uttered by Vidura, and, in a secluded place, interrogated Sanatsugata regarding the highest knowledge“, wishing to become (a) highsouled (man)
Dhritarashtra said: O Sanatsugata! which of the two is correct, your teaching about which I have heard, that death exists not, or that the gods and demons practised
Comp. Gita passim; disgust, scil. that resulting from a general dissatisfaction with everything. As to 'ruin and prosperity,' Nilakantha adds, and their causes, sin and merit.'
• Literally "respected.' Nilakantha says it means 'rejoiced over,' for Dhritarashtra thought, that in spite of his treachery be was mafe, as death was taught by Sanatsugata to bave no existence.
' I.e. free from the presence of ignorant and vulgar people. Cf. Giza, p. 68 supra.
• I.e. knowledge concerning the supreme Sell.
· Sankara's construction scems different, but is not quite clear. He says, 'wishing to become-Brahman-the meaning is wishing to acquire the sell lost through ignorance.'
• l.e. imparted to your pupils, Sankara adds ; 'heard,' scil. from Vidura.
'The construction is imperfect, but the sense is clear. Is your
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