A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.158

v2.c19.s3.t1.158

to the east, the north wind to the south, and the south wind to the north; and there were a one-eyed turtle, which rose to the surface once in a hundred years; what do you think, O monks, would the one-eyed turtle place its neck into the one-holed yoke?” “Hardly, at the most perhaps once in a long time.” “But it is easier for the one-eyed turtle to get its neck into the one-holed yoke, than for the fool, who has once sunk into the lower forms of existence, to be reborn as a human being. Why? because in the low forms of existence there is only mutual murder, and no good action.”