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13.
The Discourse on the Greater Array
902.
Whatever these dwelling in views, who dispute "this alone is truth";
All of them bring upon themselves blame, and also they obtain praise therein.
903.
For this is little, not enough for tranquillity, I say there are two fruits of contention;
Having seen this too, one should not engage in contention, seeing security in the ground of non-contention.
904.
Whatever conventions there are of worldlings, the wise one does not approach any of these;
Unattracted, why would he approach attraction, not making acquiescence in what is seen and heard.
905.
Those who hold morality as highest say purity comes by self-restraint, having accepted an ascetic practice, they stand devoted;
"Right here we would train, then comes his purity," led on by existence, declaring themselves skilled.
906.
If one has fallen away from moral observances, one trembles having failed in action;
One prattles and longs for purity, like one separated from the caravan, dwelling away from home.
907.
Having abandoned all moral rules and austerities, and this action both blameable and unblameable;
Not wishing for purity or impurity, one should wander abstaining, without grasping at peace.
908.
In dependence on that, whether what is loathed, or else what is seen or heard or sensed;
Going upwards, they lament for purity, not free from craving in existence after existence.
909.
For one who is desiring there are mutterings, and trembling too regarding what is imagined;
For whom there is no passing away and rebirth here, by what would he tremble, where would he mutter?
910.
What some call the supreme teaching, that very thing others call inferior;
Which of these is the true statement, for all these declare themselves skilled.
911.
They say their own teaching is complete, but they say another's teaching is inferior;
Thus having quarrelled they dispute, each calling their own view the truth.
912.
If one were inferior by another's disparagement, no one would be distinguished in teachings;
For many speak of another's teaching as inferior, while speaking firmly in their own.
913.
Their veneration of the Good Teaching is likewise, just as they praise their own doctrines;
All theories would be true, for their purity is individual only.
914.
For a brahmin there is no being led by another, having discriminated what is grasped among teachings;
Therefore he has passed beyond contentions, for he does not see another teaching as best.
915.
I know, I see, it is just so - some by view attain purity;
If he saw, what then is that to him? Having passed beyond, they speak of purity by another means.
916.
A man seeing sees mentality-materiality, or having seen, he will know those very things;
Let him see much or little as he wishes, for the skilled do not say purity comes by that.
917.
For one who speaks with fixed views is not easily disciplined, putting forward a designed view;
Depending upon which, declaring it beautiful there, speaking of purity, he saw truly there.
918.
The brahmin does not approach a cosmic cycle by reckoning, he is not one who follows views, nor is he a kinsman of knowledge;
And having known the conventions of worldlings, he is equanimous - others take them up, I think.
919.
Having released the mental knots, the sage here in the world, does not follow a faction among those where contentions have arisen;
Peaceful among the unpeaceful, equanimous, he is without grasping - others take up, I think.
920.
Having abandoned former mental corruptions, not producing new ones, not going by desire, nor one who speaks with fixed views;
He, the wise one, free from wrong views, does not cling in the world, not blaming himself.
921.
He who has become free from the army regarding all phenomena, whatever is seen or heard or sensed;
He, the sage with burden laid down, free, does not speculate, is not one who has ceased, is not one with craving.
The Discourse on the Greater Array is concluded as thirteenth.
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