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THE DIAMOND SUTRA

the scope of its fruitful rewards is equally incomprehensible."[1]

Upon that occasion, the venerable Subhuti addressed the Lord Buddha, saying: "Honoured of the Worlds! if a good disciple, whether man or woman, having desired to attain to supreme spiritual wisdom, what immutable Law shall support the mind of that disciple, and bring into subjection every inordinate desire?"[2]

  1. ↑ "For as the method and entire meaning of this Sutra is not to be described or entirely conceived, so the merit and happy consequences of accepting it cannot be conceived or described."—Kin-Kong-King. Beal.
  2. ↑ "Let a man restraining all these remain in devotion. . . . For he, whose senses are under his control, possesses spiritual knowledge. Attachments to objects of sense arise in a man who meditates upon them; from attachment arises desire; from desire passion springs up; from passion comes bewilderment; from bewilderment, confusion of the memory; from confusion of the memory, destruction of the intellect; from destruction of the intellect, he perishes."—Bhagavad - Gita. J. Cockburn Thomson.
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