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________________ CHAPTER XIII. 239 · away all like a river carrying away wood that has fallen into it; helpless man passes on to the second (region) governed by the fruit of his own actions. (32) "Death swallows men by bundrels, like even as the Makara destroys creatures living in water; or the Garda, serpents; or the lion, the clephant; or fire, gress awl herbs and other objects. (83) "From these and of is evils by laundreds thou didst resolve to free the world. Cail to mind that former resulve of thino. This is the time for thy parture.' (SA) "When the cheerful daunsels were entertaining the great sage with music, liversified Cithas ined forth from the sounds of the music throngh the grace of Sugata. (55) “ All thugs proceeding from the residua of former actys are known to be supless and impermanent like the lightning in the sky. Thy time has come, the time for thy proceeding forth, O Suvrata! (90) "All residua of works are iinpermanent, unlasting, fragile like an ubaked water jar; liko a play on a stage; like a town built, of dust.--ill litating for a short while only. (87) " Residua tre by nature subject to destruction, they are transitory and moving like the cloud of antumn, like the sand on the banks of a river, subject to cause and essentially weak. (18) "Residua are like the faing of a lamp, by nature produced and destroyal suddenly; in unsteadiness they are comparable to the passing wind; unsubstantial and feeble like froth. (89) Residna are inert and hollow; they appear like the stem of a plantain trec; they are delusive to the mind like jugglery; (worthless) as the babble of infans; (transient) as the (Hame of) a handful of lay. (90) “'Tlırough cause and consciousness proceed all the products of residun; all this (crcation) therefore is due to the mutual reaction of causes'; ignorant people do not understand this. (91) Even as a rope is made by power ployod in uniting muqja
SR No.011126
Book TitleLalit Vistara
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorRajendralala Mitra
PublisherAsiatic Society
Publication Year1881
Total Pages292
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size18 MB
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