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LECTURE XXV.
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as follows: You have well declared to me what true Brâhmanahood consists in. (37)
You are a sacrificer of sacrifices, you are the most learned of those who know the Vêdas, you know the Gyótishânga, you know perfectly the Law. (38)
'You are able to save yourself and others ; therefore do us the honour to accept our alms, O best of monks.' (39)
“I do not want any alms; but, O Brâhmana, enter the order at once, lest you should be drifted about on the dreadful ocean of the Samsara, whose eddies are dangers. (40)
“There is glue (as it were) in pleasure: those who are not given to pleasure, are not soiled by it; those who love pleasures, must wander about in the Samsara; those who do not, will be liberated. (41)
"If you take two clods of clay, one wet, the other dry, and fling them against the wall, the wet one will stick to it. (42)
"Thus foolish men, who love pleasure, will be fastened (to Karman), but the passionless will not, even as the dry clod of clay (does not stick to the wall).” (43)
When Vigayaghôsha had learned the excellent Law from the houseless Gayaghôsha, he entered the order. (44)
Gayaghôsha and Vigayaghôsha both annihilated their Karman by self-control and penance, and reached the highest perfection. (45)
Thus I say.
