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LECTURE X.
"Here (on earth) you are the highest man, Reverend sir, and hereafter you will be the highest; exempt from all blemishes you will reach Perfection, a higher state than which there is none in this world." (58)
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Thus praising the royal Seer, Sakra in perfect faith kept his right side towards him and paid reverence to him, again and again. (59)
After having adored the best sage's feet marked by the Kakra and the Ankusa1, he flew up through the air, with his crown and his earrings prettily trembling. (60)
Nami humbled himself; enjoined by Sakra in person, the king of Vidêha left the house, and took upon him Sramanahood. (61)
Thus act the enlightened, the wise, the clever ones; they turn away from pleasures, as did Nami, the royal Seer. (62) Thus I say.
TENTH LECTURE 2.
THE LEAF OF THE TREE.
As the fallow leaf of the tree falls to the ground, when its days are gone, even so the life of men (will
1 The wheel and the hook.
2 This is a sermon delivered by Mahâvîra to his disciple Indrabhûti, who belonged to the Gôtama Gôtra. In the commentary a lengthy legend is given how Gautama came to want this instruction. As it is not necessary for understanding the contents of this lecture, I may pass it over.
