In this manner the Great-minded One persuaded his father. He obtained his father's permission and renouncing his brilliant royal bliss, as if it were a straw, took up his abode in the penance-grove. Having acquired there dhyânas of immense extent and established mankind in them, he mounted to Brahma's world.
In this manner even the brilliancy of royalty does not obstruct the way of salvation to those, whose mind has been seized by emotion. Thus considering, one must make one's self familiar with the emotional state (samvega). [This is also to be told, when expounding the right conception of death: 'So the thought that one may die soon causes the sense of samvega'.' Likewise, when expounding that death should always be present to our mind, and when teaching the temporariness of everything: 'So all phenomenal[1] are perishable.' Also, when inculcating the tenet of taking no delight in the whole Universe : So nothing which has form (samskrita)[2] is reliable.' And also with this conclusion : 'So this world is helpless and succourless.' Also this may be propounded : 'In this manner it is easy to obtain righteousness in the forest, but not so for a householder.']
XXXIII. The Story of the Buffalo.
(Cp. the Pâli Gâtaka, No. 278, Fausb. II, 385-388; Kariyâpitaka II, 5.)
Forbearance deserves this name only if there exists some opportunity for showing it, not otherwise. Thus
- ↑ Anityâh sarvasamskârâh, one of the most popular sayings of the Lord.
- ↑ Properly speaking, the samskrita is the phenomenon, and the samskârâh are the 'fashions' or 'forms' of the perceptible objects as well as of the perceiving mind. But the latter term is not rarely likewise indicative of the things or objects (see Childers, Dictionary, s. v. samkhâro), and the former is here nearly a synonym of nâmarûpa.
