Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
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

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VII. 2. 16.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
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continuous and unceasing zeal and effort, navigates? his ship; just so, O king, does the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, when regulating his mind, continue night and day unceasingly zealous and earnest in regulating his mind by careful thought. This, o king, is the one quality of the pilot he ought to have. For it was said, O king, by the Blessed One, the god over all gods, in the Dhammapada (the Collection of scripture verses): "Be full of zeal, watch over your own thoughts ; Raise yourselves up out of the slough of endless
births, As the strong elephant engulphed in depths of
mud ?." (379) 15. 'And again, O king, as the pilot knows all that is in the sea, whether good or bad; just so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, know good from evil, and what is an offence from what is not, and what is mean from what is exalted, and what is dark from what is light. This, o king, is the second quality of the pilot he ought to have.
16. 'And again, O king, as the pilot puts a seal on the steering apparatus : lest any one should touch it; so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, put the seal of self-control on his heart, lest any evil or wrong thoughts should arise within it. This is the third quality of the pilot he ought to have. For it was said, O king, by the
? Såreti, ‘makes go.' Not in Childers, but see Anguttara Nikâya III, 35, 4, and compare Kullavagga V, II, 2.
• Dhammapada, verse 327. • Yanta, which the Simhalese renders yantra (p. 559).
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