The Light of Asia, Or, The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)Mershon, 1879 - 238 psl. |
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ache Ardjuna arithmic beauteous bird bliss blood blooms Brahm breast breath bright bring brow Buddh Buddhism Channa cometh cried Crimson and blue dark dawn dead dear death Devadatta Devas doth dream drew earth evil eyes fair fear feet flame flesh flowers Four Noble Truths gates gifts glad gods gold golden Gunga hand hath heart heaven holy Kalpas Kantaka Kapilavastu laid light lips live Lord Buddha Master moaned night NIRVANA noble nought o'er ofttimes pain palms passed path peace pearl pity pray Prince Queen Maya Rajagriha Rishi rose round Sâkya sate shining Siddartha sighed silver sitar sleep soft song sorrow soul spake spring stars steed stood strife sweet Yasodhara tears tender thee things thou thy dream toil tread Tree Trishna Truth unto Viswamitra watch waves wheel Whereof wind World-honoured worship Yakshas Yesan
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231 psl. - Seeking nothing, he gains all ; Foregoing self, the Universe grows " I " : If any teach NIRVANA is to cease, Say unto such they lie. If any teach NIRVANA is to live, Say unto such they err ; not knowing this, Nor what light shines beyond their broken lamps, Nor lifeless, timeless bliss.
211 psl. - Immeasurable ; nor sink the string of thought Into the Fathomless. Who asks doth err, Who answers, errs.
26 psl. - And all thought good, But the King answered, " If we seek him wives, Love chooseth ofttimes with another eye; And if we bid range Beauty's garden round, To pluck what blossom pleases, he will smile And sweetly shun the joy he knows not of.
225 psl. - The Third is Sorrow's Ceasing. This is peace — To conquer love of self and lust of life, To tear deep-rooted passion from the breast, To still the inward strife; For love, to clasp Eternal Beauty close; For glory, to be lord of self; for pleasure, To live beyond the gods; for countless wealth, To lay up lasting treasure...
220 psl. - If making none to lack, he thoroughly purge The lie and lust of self forth from his blood; Suffering all meekly, rendering for offence Nothing but grace and good : If he shall day by day dwell merciful, Holy and just and kind and true ; and rend Desire from where it clings with bleeding roots, Till love of life have end : He — dying — leaveth as the sum of him A life-count closed, whose ills are dead and quit, Whose good is quick and mighty, far and near, So that fruits follow it.
5 psl. - Were the four Regents of the Earth, come down From Mount Sumeru — they who write men's deeds On brazen plates — the Angel of the East, Whose hosts are clad in silver robes, and bear Targets of pearl: the Angel of the South, Whose horsemen, the Kumbhandas, ride blue steeds, With sapphire shields : the Angel of the West, By Nagas followed, riding steeds blood-red, With coral shields : the Angel of the North, Environed by his Yakshas, all in gold, On yellow horses, bearing shields of gold.
219 psl. - That which ye sow ye reap. See yonder fields ! The sesamum was sesamum, the corn Was corn. The Silence and the Darkness knew ! So is a man's fate born.
47 psl. - Of nautch girls,1 cup-bearers, and cymballers, Delicate, dark-browed ministers of love, Who fanned the sleeping eyes of the happy Prince, And when he waked, led back his thoughts to bliss...
22 psl. - So saying, the good Lord Buddha seated him Under a jambu-tree, with ankles crossed, — As holy statues sit, — and first began To meditate this deep disease of life, What its far source and whence its remedy. So vast a pity filled him, such wide love For living things, such passion to heal pain, That by their stress his princely spirit passed To ecstasy, and, purged from mortal taint Of sense and self, the boy attained thereat Dhyana, first step of