Kad je Buddha meditirao, prisao mu je djavo.
"O you are thin and you are pale,
And you are in death's presence too;
A thousand parts are pledged to death,
But life still holds one part of you.
Live, Sir! Life is the better way;
You can gain merit if you live,
Come, live the Holy Life and pour
Libations on the holy fires,
And thus a world of merit gain.
What can you do by struggling now?
The path of struggling too is rough
And difficult and hard to bear."
[12]
Interesantan monolog.
Ali njemu Buddha odgovara:
"Your first squadron is Sense-Desires,
Your second is called Boredom, then
Hunger and Thirst compose the third,
And Craving is the fourth in rank,
The fifth is Sloth and Torpor
While Cowardice lines up as sixth,
Uncertainty is seventh, the eighth
Is Malice paired with Obstinacy;
Gain, Honor and Renown, besides,
And ill-won Notoriety,
Self-praise and Denigrating Others:
These are your squadrons, Namuci."
[14]
Ali Buddha sam proglasava da je spreman za borbu.
"None but the brave will conquer them
To gain bliss by the victory...
Better I die in battle now
Than choose to live on in defeat...
I sally forth to fight, that I
May not be driven forth from my post."
[15]
"For I have faith (saddhaa) and energy (viriya)
And I have wisdom (pańńaa) too."
"Your serried squadrons, which the world
With all its gods cannot defeat,
I shall now break with wisdom
As with a stone a clay pot."
[16]
"I sally forth to fight, that I
May not be driven from my post
(Maa ma.m .thaanaa acaavayi)."
I na kraju Djavo je odusta.
"For seven years I pursued the Buddha at every stepYet with the wakeful Buddha I got no chance.
As a crow that hopped around a fat-colored stoneThinking 'we may find a tender delicacy'Flies away in disappointment
In disgust I give up Gotama."
[18]
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/a.../wheel419.html
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