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"Thus, Brethren," said the Master, "the heart, when passion holds it fast, is hard to release. When the attributes of greed spring up within it, they are hard to chase away, and even persons so wise and good as the above are thereby rendered witless." His lesson ended, he preached the Truths, at the close whereof some won the First, some the Second, and some the Third Path, whilst others again attained to Arahatship. Further, the Master shewed the connexion and identified the Birth by saying, "Ananda was the king of those days, the Buddha's followers were the followers, and I myself the Spade Sage."

Footnotes

^169:1 The third, and latest, of the Pitakas,--perhaps compiled from the Nikayas of the Sutta-pitaka.

^170:1 Only the merits of a good man struggling with adversity could thus appeal to the mercy-seat of the Archangel.

^171:1 It is only when a future Buddha renounces the world for the religious life, that his 'going forth' is termed a Great Renunciation. Cf. p. 61 of Vol. I. of Fausboll's text as to Gotama's 'going forth.'

^171:2 No. 509,--where, however, no further details are vouchsafed.

^171:3 As shewn above, he had already arrived at Insight through the idea of water.

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