Brahmajalasutta 2.12
The Divine Net 2.12
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2.12.1
They say:
2.12.2
‘The gods who are not malevolent don’t spend too much time gazing at each other, so they don’t grow angry with each other, their bodies and minds don’t get tired, and they don’t pass away from that host of gods.
2.12.3
They are permanent, everlasting, eternal, imperishable, remaining the same for all eternity.
2.12.4
But we who were malevolent spent too much time gazing at each other, we grew angry with each other, our bodies and minds got tired, and we passed away from that host of gods.
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We are impermanent, not lasting, short-lived, liable to pass away, and have come to this place.’
2.12.6
This is the third ground on which some ascetics and brahmins rely to assert that the self and the cosmos are partially eternal.
Translations (4)
- Наставление о величайшей сети — Russian
- Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta — sr
- Das göttliche Netz — German
- Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) — English
Linked texts (1)
- Brahmajālasutta — Pāli