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and valvaja bark," and a water lift must rest on a wheel; neither can result by itself, (92)
so all worldly objects are produced by the co-operation of one material with another. They are never found singly in esse or posse. (98)
Even as a seed produces a sprout, but the sprout is not identical with the seed, nor does the sprout abide in it, owing to all things being transitory but continuous in nature, (91)
they have residua and ignorance for their cause, and in residua there is no permanence: Both residua and ignorance, are verily substanceless; hy nature they are inert. (95)
One may see an impression from a seal, but there is no transference into the impression of that seal; nor does the one abide in the other, and therefore there is no permanency in either; there is unbrokenness of the chain of residua, but no constancy. (96)
By the union of the image, the eye, and consciousness, vision is product; form does not proceed from the eye, nor is there an entrance of the form into the eye. (97)
The qualified are agreeable because soulless, and not because there is a soul; and the verse (i. e., the admission of soul) is untrue and imaginary; the sensation of vision is produced therein (. ., in that imaginary soul). (98)
He knows (that sol) is produced on the destruction of knowledge, and it disappears on the origin of knowledge, who knows the present, the past, and the future to be void and delusive. (991)
The triple contact of a stick with another and the force of the hand is the cause of the production of fire, and the action may be easily created. (100)
When a Pandit enquires whence is a thing come, and whereto does it go, he hunts everywhere in foreign lands and his own land, but never can he make out whence the coming and whereto is the going. (101)
The causes of works (ma), are skandhas, field (lit. matter
| SR No. | 011126 |
| Book Title | Lalit Vistara |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Rajendralala Mitra |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 292 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 18 MB |