By Paul Carus

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while Buddha, the Blessed One, the Tathagata, the nice sage of the Sakya tribe, was once but jogging on the earth, the inside track thereof unfold over all of the valley of the holy Ganga, and each guy greeted his buddy joyfully and stated : "Hast thou heard the great tidings? The Enlightened One, the ideal One, the holy instructor of gods and males, has seemed within the flesh and is physically strolling between us! i've got noticeable him and feature taken shelter in his doctrine; pass thou additionally and spot him in his glory. His countenance is gorgeous just like the emerging solar; he's tall and robust just like the younger lion that has left his den; and while the Blessed One opens his mouth to evangelise, his phrases are like track, and all those that hearken to his sermons think in him. The kings of Magadha, of Kosala, and of many different international locations have heard his voice, have bought him, and confess themselves his disciples. The Blessed Buddha has solved the riddle of the realm and is aware the matter of lifestyles. He teaches that existence is affliction, yet he understands either the starting place of agony and the get away from it, and assures his disciples that Nirvana might be got via jogging within the noble course of righteousness."

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In other words, what call a thinker is but the thinking of the thought and the thinking ment we of true of the eternal. " lull in the conversation and pause the Buddhist monk continued NIRVANA. 54 " Your Katlia-Upanisliad problem is it ; to the hereafter, swer, The it a discourse on the is but instead giving an an- of merely builds up a beautiful true solution trine of the How'^ as a formulation of the is air-castle. " The Brahman chief felt that his most sacred convictions were omitted in this statement, and he asked, not without a tremor of uneasi- ness in his voice: ''Is there nothing in immutable, nothing that immortal?

And enjoyed the feast, The guests were merry and when the evening grew cooler and the moon rose ance, the company sat down under of a large in mild radi- the branches ban3^an tree and began to speak of the blessings of the gods and the glory of their country. Then Anuruddha and '' Subbuti, the judge, addressed said Venerable Anuruddha, I cherish a high regard for the Blessed One, the sage of the Sakyas, the whom the people call the Tathagata, Holy Buddha. But it seems to his doctrine will not suit our people.

Sacrifice fire indeed an empt}' ceremony- that bears no fruit? If it truly be, as sa3^s the of the blind. " pause Subhuti fiction. understand I Self is the uncreated things, yet continued it now that the and the sole ruler within cannot be seen by the eye, reached by the speech or apprehended mind which the idea of an immutable Self cannot be mere all is him the desires of and has not severed the bind him to that which "And Is the great ; the Self must be imagined The Self tion ' is briefl3^ Om,' and is b}^ b3^ the the heart.

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