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specting the past, or respecting the future, or respecting both 

 the past and the future, and meditating on previous events 

 or on those still in futurity, declare a variety of opinions 

 respecting the past and future in sixty two modes ; but these 

 are the result of the impressions made upon the senses. 



Priests, among these Samanas and Bramins are some who 

 hold doctrines respecting a perpetuity of being and who in 

 four modes teach that the soul and the world have eternal 

 existence, but certainly the thing (or truth) is not so, but 

 only that these things have been experienced by them, (a) 

 ( The same words are used after the enumeration of each 

 sect as in the former instances and therefore not necessary 

 to be repeated.) * 



Priests, those Samanas and Bramins who hold doctrines 

 respecting the perpetuity of existence &c. (each sect is 

 again enumerated and then the following is affirmed respec- 

 ting them.) 



All these 62 modes of teaching respecting the past, or 

 the future, originate in the sensations experienced by re- 

 peated impressions made on the six organs of sensitiveness : 

 on account of these sensations desire is produced, in conse- 

 quence of desire an attachment to the desired objects, on 

 account of this attachment reproduction in an existent state ; 

 (&) in consequence of this reproduction of existence, birth : 

 in consequence of birth are produced disease, death, sorrow, 

 weeping, pain, grief and discontent. If priests, at any time 

 a priest has a correct understanding respecting the produc- 

 tion, the cessation, the advantages, the evils and the ex- 

 tinction of the six organs of sensitiveness, he understands 

 things far superior to all that is taught by these teachers. 



If Priests any Samanas or Bramins hold doctrines res- 

 pecting the past, or respecting both the past and the future, 

 and meditating on previous events or on those still in fu- 

 turity, declare a variety of opinions respecting the past and 

 future in 62 different modes, they are all included in ihis 

 net, where they float up and down, being surrounded by it. 

 Thus, Priests, a skilful fisher, or one of his pupils, casts a 

 fine net into a pond having but little water, and thinks, 

 whatever fish of size may be in this pond every one will be 



(b) 63(^03 the germ of existence in either of the three divi- 

 sions 6\Z5 cp<5^S3; the worlds of irien and gods, — the worlds 

 of Brahma,— the worlds in which no bodily form exists. 



