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12.
The Discourse on the Smaller Array
885.
Dwelling each in their own view, having quarrelled, the skilled speak differently;
"Whoever knows thus, he has understood the Teaching; whoever rejects this is incomplete."
886.
Thus having quarrelled they dispute, and they say "the other is a fool, unskilled";
Which of these is the true statement, for all these declare themselves skilled.
887.
If one does not approve of another's teaching, one is a fool and of inferior wisdom;
All are fools of very inferior wisdom, all these are dwelling in views.
888.
And not purified by their own view, of pure wisdom, wholesome, wise;
None of them is of deficient wisdom, for their view too is likewise complete.
889.
I do not say that this is true, which fools say to each other mutually;
They made their own view the truth, therefore they burn others as fools.
890.
What some call truth and reality, others call that hollow and false;
Thus having plunged in, they dispute, why do ascetics not speak as one?
891.
For there is one truth, there is no second, in which people understanding would not dispute;
They proclaim their truths as different themselves, therefore ascetics do not speak as one.
892.
Why do they speak truths as different, the skilled declaring themselves disputants;
Are the truths heard many and different, or do they follow their own reasoning?
893.
There are indeed not many different truths, permanent in the world, apart from perception;
Having fashioned reasoning in views, they speak of the twofold principle: "truth" and "falsehood".
894.
In what is seen, heard, in morality and observances, or in what is sensed, and relying on these, seeing with contempt;
Standing in judgment, laughing, he says "the other is a fool, unskilled."
895.
By whatever he burns another as a fool, by that he calls himself skilled;
He himself calling himself skilled, he despises another - that very thing he praises.
896.
He is complete with overstepping view, intoxicated by conceit, one who is proud thinking himself perfect;
By himself alone he has consecrated himself with his mind, for his view is likewise complete.
897.
If indeed one is inferior by another's speech, oneself together is of inferior wisdom;
But if oneself is one who has attained the highest knowledge, a wise one, there is no fool among ascetics.
898.
Those who assert a teaching other than this have failed and are incomplete in purity;
Thus too the sectarians speak diversely, for they are infatuated by lust for their own views.
899.
"Here alone is purity," thus they proclaim, they do not speak of purification in other teachings;
Thus too the sectarians are established diversely, speaking firmly there in their own doctrine.
900.
Even speaking firmly in one's own doctrine, whom here would one burn as a fool?
He himself would bring about quarrel, calling another a fool of impure teaching.
901.
Standing in judgment, having measured by oneself, he enters into contention above in the world;
Having abandoned all judgments, a creature does not make quarrel in the world.
The Discourse on the Smaller Array is concluded as twelfth.
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