“This world is a consuming fire. The people are sunk in ‘Contact,’ they proclaim disease as something good. What a man supposes will happen, the opposite to that happens. This people, who differentiate themselves, having attained to existence, sunk in existence, praise existence. When a man praises it, there is fear: where there is fear, there is sorrow. p. 45 The complete abandonment (of the love) of existence: that is called the holy life. All these Samanas and Brahmanas who say that by existence there is escape from existence, these, I declare, will not escape from existence. But all these Samanas and Brahmanas who say that by non-existence there is escape from existence, these, I declare, are independent of existence. Not from Upadhi, as a result, does sorrow arise: when all ‘attachment’ is destroyed, then is there no resurgence of sorrow. Behold this variegated world, sunk in ignorance, full of pleasure-loving beings, unemancipated! All existence, whatever or wherever, is impermanent, full of sorrow and subject to change.” |