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IV, 8, 36.
in that case the pimples come because they know : "Such and such is the event which we shall bring about?"
OF MILINDA THE KING.
'Certainly not, Sir. But according to the place on which the pimples have arisen, the fortune-tellers, making their observations, give decision, saying: "Such and such will be the result."'
'Well, in the same way, O king, it is not the same Imind which dreams the dream which also knows:
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Such and such a result, conspicuous or terrible, will follow." But after the omen has occurred he tells others, and they then explain the meaning of it.'
36. 'Venerable Nâgasena, when a man dreams a dream, is he awake or asleep?'
'Neither the one, O king, nor yet the other. But when his sleep has become light1, and he is not yet fully conscious, in that interval it is that dreams are dreamt. When a man is in deep sleep, O king, his mind has returned home (has entered again into the Bhavanga), and a mind thus shut in does not act, and a mind hindered in its action knows not the evil and the good, and he who knows not has no dreams. It is when the mind is active that dreams are dreamt. Just, O king, as in the darkness and gloom, where no light is, no shadow will fall even on the most burnished mirror, so when a man is in deep sleep his mind has returned into itself, and
1 Okkante middhe; like a monkey's sleep,' says Hînațikumburê.
On bhavanga compare Abhidhammattha Sangaha III, 8. Like a bird that has re-entered its nest' is Hînafi-kumbure's
gloss.
Appativigânantassa, 'does not know the distinctions between bliss and woe (sukha dukkha vibhaga),' says the Simhalese, p. 440.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |