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to these are good actions : and the ten actions, composed, half and half, 

 of these two sorts, are mixed actions. 



Question XV. 



AVhat is the motive of your good acts — the love of God — the fear of God 

 — or the desire of prospering in the world ? 



Answer. 

 The primary motive for doing well, and worshipping Buddha, according 

 to the scriptures, is the hope of obtaining Mukti and Mulcsha, becoming 

 Nirvana, and being freed from transmigrations : these exalted blessings 

 cannot be had without the love of God ; therefoi'e they, who make them- 

 selves accepted by God, are the true saints, and are rarely found ; and 

 between them and Buddha there is no difference, because they will even- 

 tually become Buddhas, and will obtain Nirvdna Pada, i. e. mukti (absorp- 

 tion), and their jj/o/i will be absorbed into the J^oti of Buddha ; and to this 

 degree Sakya and the others of the " Saj^ta-Buddhas " (see note 28) have 

 arrived, and we call them Buddhas, because, whoever has reached this 

 state is, in our creed, a Buddha. Those persons who do good from 

 the fear of hell, and avoid evil from the desire of prospering in tlie world, 

 are likewise rarely found, and their degree is much above that of the class 

 of sinners. Their sufferings in Naraka will be therefore lessened ; but they 

 will be constrained to suffer several transmigrations, and endure pain and 

 pleasure in this world, till they obtain Mukti and Moksha. 



Question XVI. 

 AViU you answer, in the world to come, to A'di-Buddha for your acts in 

 this world, or to whom will you answer ? and what rewards for good, and 

 pains for evil, will you reap in the next world ? 



Answer. 

 How can the wicked arrive at Buddha ? (see note 29.) Their wicked deeds 

 will hurry them away to Naraka ; and the good, will, by virtue of their good 

 acts, be transported to the Bhuva7ias of Buddha, and will not be there 

 interrogated at all ; and those who have sometimes done good and some- 

 times evil, are destined to a series of births and deaths on earth, and the 

 account of their actions is kept by Yama Raja. 



Question XVII. 

 Do you believe in the metempsychosis ? 



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