Sacred Books of the East : Including Selections From the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, And the Life of Buddha
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Indulging thus for some time in thoughts of religious solitude, he now 320 LIFE OF BUDDHA suppressed his feelings and controlled his members, and rising turned again towards the city. His followers all flocked after him, calling him to stop and not go far from them, but in his mind these secret thoughts so held him, devising means by which to escape from the world, that though his body moved along the road, his heart was far away among the mountains ; even as the bound and captive elephant ever... thinks about his desert wilds. The prince now entering the city, there met him men and women, earnest for their several ends ; the old besought him for their children, the young sought something for the wife, others sought something for their brethren; all those allied by kinship or by family, aimed to obtain their several suits, all of them joined in relationship dreading the pain of separation. And now the prince's heart was filled with joy, as he suddenly heard those words " separation and association." " These are joyful sounds to me," he said, " they assure me that my vow shall be accom- plished." Then deeply pondering the joy of " snapped relation- ship," the idea of Nirvana, deepened and widened in him, his body as a peak of the Golden Mount, his shoulder like the ele- phant's, his voice like the spring-thunder, his deep-blue eye like that of the king of oxen; his mind full of religious thoughts, his face bright as the full moon, his step like that of the lion king, thus he entered his palace; even as the son of Lord Sakra, or Sakra-putra, his mind reverential, his person dignified, he went straight to his father's presence, and with head inclined, inquired, " Is the king well?
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