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II, 9.
THE MISSION TO SEEK THE PRINCE.
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love and affection ? that love which overshadows and embraces all. 687
Religion requires not the wild solitudes; you can practise a hermit's duties in your home; studiously thoughtful, diligent in expedients, this is to lead a hermit's life in truth. 688
'A shaven head, and garments soiled with dirt, to wander by yourself through desert wilds,—this is but to encourage constant fears, and cannot be rightly called “an awakened hermit's (life).” 689
Would rather we might take you by the hand, and sprinklel water on your head, and crown you with a heavenly diadem, and place you underneath a flowery canopy, 690
*That all eyes might gaze with eagerness upon you; after this, in truth, we would leave our home with joy. The former kings Teou-lau-ma (Druma?), A-neou-ke-o-sa (Anugasa or Anudasa), 691
'Po-ke-lo-po-yau (Vagrabâhu), Pi-po-lo-'anti (Vaibhrâga), Pi-ti-o-ke-na (Vatagana ?), Na-losha-po-lo (Narasavara ?), 692
All these several kings refused not the royal crown, the jewels, and the ornaments of person; their hands and feet were adorned with gems, 693
* Around them were women to delight and please, these things they cast not from them, for the sake of escape; you then may also come back home, and undertake both necessary duties 2; 694
Your mind prepare itself in higher law, whilst for the sake of earth you wield the sceptre; let there be no more weeping, but comply with what we say, and let us publish it; 695
! I have here substituted for . . That is, the duties of religion and also of the state. (19]
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |