Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 172 Book XIV [Enlightenment] 1. Then, having conquered the hosts of Māra by his firmness and calmness, he the great master of meditation set himself to meditate, longing to know the supreme end. 2. And having attained the highest mastery in all kinds of meditation, he remembered in the first watch the continuous series of all his former births. 3. ‘In such a place I was so and so by name, and from thence I passed and came hither,’ thus he remembered his thousands of births, experiencing each as it were over again. 4. And having remembered each birth and each death in all those various transmigrations, the compassionate one then felt compassion for all living beings. 5. Having wilfully rejected the good guides in this life and done all kinds of actions in various lives, this world of living beings rolls on helplessly, like a wheel. 6. As he thus remembered, to him in his strong self-control came the conviction, ‘All existence is insubstantial, like the fruit of a plantain.’ 7. When the second watch came, he, possessed of unequalled energy, received a pre-eminent divine sight, like the highest of all sight-gifted beings.
Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 173 8. Then by that divine perfectly pure sight he beheld the whole world as in a spotless mirror. 9. As he saw the various transmigrations and rebirths of the various beings with their several lower or higher merits from their actions, compassion grew up more within him. 10. ‘These living beings, under the influence of evil actions, pass into wretched worlds, – these others, under the influence of good actions, go forward in heaven. 11. ‘The one, being born in a dreadful hell full of terrors, are miserably tortured, alas! by many kinds of suffering; 12. ‘Some are made to drink molten iron of the colour of fire, others are lifted aloft screaming on a red-hot iron pillar; 13. ‘Others are baked like flour, thrown with their heads downwards into iron jars; others are miserably burned in heaps of heated charcoal; 14. ‘Some are devoured by fierce dreadful dogs with iron teeth, others by gloating crows with iron beaks and all made as it were of iron; 15. ‘Some, wearied of being burned, long for cold shade; these enter like bound captives into a dark blue wood with swords for leaves.
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