Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...1234 1 The address 'Bho Gotama' or 'Gotama, ' according to Childers (Pali Diet. p. 150), was an appellation of disrespect used by unconverted Brahmins in addressing Buddha. The title Gautama Buddha is rarely met with in Northern translations. 2 The Arhat is the highest grade among the Buddhist saints. See Burnouf, Introd. p. 295. 3 Here the appeal is to them as religious persons. Or, is the sin of dishonouring a father. The true words of the Only Enlightened; that is, of the Buddha. 6 Isk for w. Tathagata on their account briefly declared to them the one true way; the foolish masters practising austerities, and those who love to gratify their senses, 1235 He pointed out to them these two distinctive classes and how both greatly erred. 'Neither of these (he said) has found the way of highest wisdom, nor are their ways of life productive of true rescue. 1236 'The emaciated devotee by suffering produces in himself confused and sickly thoughts, not conducive even to worldly knowledge, how much less to triumph over sense! 1237 'For he who tries to light a lamp with water, will not succeed in scattering the darkness, (and so the man who tries) with worn-out body to trim the lamp of wisdom shall not succeed, nor yet destroy his ignorance or folly. 1238 'Who seeks with rotten wood to evoke the fire will waste his labour and get nothing for it; but boring hard wood into hard, the man of skill forthwith gets fire for his use; 1239 'In seeking wisdom then it is not by these austerities a man may reach the law of life. But (likewise) to indulge in pleasure is opposed to right, this is the fool's barrier against wisdom's light; 1240 'The sensualist cannot comprehend the Sutras or the.Sastras, how much less the way of overcoming all desire! As some man..