Friends:
The Ultimate Goal is complete Extinguishing of Craving:
By the gradual stilling, giving up, fading away, letting go, relinquishing
and thus ceasing of all greed, desire, lust, craving, clinging, attachment,
adherence, obsession, and latent tendency towards the various elements
of forms, feelings, perceptions, constructions & kinds of consciousness,
the mind is finally said to be well released...!!!
Therefore; those recluses & priests, who are well released by Extinction
of Craving, have reached the Ultimate End & won Absolute Security from
Bondage, they have achieved a Sublime Nobility, they have accomplished
the Supreme Good! They are thus Best among all Gods and all Humans !!!
Even these mighty Devas as Indra, Brahma and Pajapati praise them with
these long standing ovations from afar:
Homage to you, Thoroughbred Man!
Admirable are you, Supreme Man!
We know not on what you Meditate!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22(4+79): [III 13+-91]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-001.html
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Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
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