5. Buddha: 'The world is bound by pleasure, reasoning is its practice; by the leaving of desire Nibbana is said to be.' (1108)

6. Udaya: 'How does consciousness cease in him that wanders thoughtful? Having come to ask thee, let us hear thy words.' (1109)

[1. Upekhasatisamsuddham
Dhammatakkapuregavam
Annavimokham pabrumi
Aviggaya pabhedanam.

2. Kim su samyogano loko,
Kim su tassa vikarana
Kiss' assa vippahanena
Nibbanam iti vukkati?]

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7. Buddha: 'For him who both inwardly and outwardly does not delight in sensation, for him who thus wanders thoughtful, consciousness ceases.' (1110)

Udayamanavapukkha is ended.

15. POSALAMANAVAPUKKHA.

1. 'He who shows the past (births, &c.),'--so said the venerable Posala,--'who is without desire and has cut off doubt, to him who is accomplished in all things (dhamma), I have come supplicatingly with a question. (1111)

2. 'O Sakka, I ask about his knowledge who is aware of past shapes, who casts off every corporeal form, and who sees that there exists nothing either internally or externally; how can such a one be led (by anybody)[1]? (1112)

3. 'Tathagata, knowing all the faces of consciousness, O Posala,'--so said Bhagavat,--'knows (also) him who stands delivered, devoted to that (object)[2]. (1113)

4. 'Having understood that the bonds of pleasure do not originate in nothingness (?), he sees clearly in

[1. Vibhutarupasannissa
Sabbakayapahayino
Agghattan ka bahiddha ka
Natthi kinkiti passato
Nanam Sakkanupukkhami,
Katham neyyo tathavidho.

2. Vinnanatthitiyo sabba--Posala ti Bhagava--
Abhiganam Tathagato
Titthantam enam ganati
Vimuttam tapparayanam.]

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this (matter), this (is) the knowledge of a perfect, accomplished Brahmana[1].' (1114)

Posalamanavapukkha is ended.

16. MOGHARAGAMANAVAPUKKHA

1. 'Twice have I asked Sakka,'--so said the venerable Mogharagan,--'but the clearly-seeing has not explained it to me; if the divine Isi is asked for the third time, he will explain it, so I have heard. (1115)

2. 'There is this world, the other world, Brahman's world together with the world of the gods; I do not know thy view, the famous Gotama's (view). (1116)

3. 'To this man who sees what is good I have come supplicatingly with a question: How is any one to look upon the world that the king of death may not see him?' (1117)

4. 'Look upon the world as void, O Mogharagan, being always thoughtful; having destroyed the view of oneself (as really existing), so one may overcome death; the king of death will not see him who thus regards the world[2].' (1118)

Mogharagamanavapukkha is ended.