remarkable for his dignified and illustrious appearance, as the embroidered flag of a temple.  Respectfully and reverently approaching, with head bowed down, he worshipped his feet, whilst he said:  “Truly, honored one, you are my teacher, and I am your follower:  much and long time have I been harassed with doubts, oh! would that you would light the lamp of knowledge.”  Buddha knowing that this twice-born sage was heartily desirous of finding the best mode of escape, with soft and pliant voice, he bade him come and welcome.  Hearing his bidding and his heart complying, losing all listlessness of body or spirit, his soul embraced the terms of this most excellent salvation.  Quiet and calm, putting away defilement, the great merciful, as he alone knew how, briefly explained the mode of this deliverance, exhibiting the secrets of his law, ending with the four indestructible acquirements.  The great sage, everywhere celebrated, was called Maha Kasyapa.  His original faith was that “body and soul are different,” but he had also held that they are the same; that there was both “I” and a place for “I”; but now he forever cast away his former faith, and considered only that “sorrow” is ever accumulating; so by removing sorrow there will be “no remains”; obedience to the precepts and the practice of discipline, though not themselves the cause, yet he considered these the necessary mode by which to find deliverance.  With equal and impartial mind, he considered the nature of sorrow, for evermore freed from a cleaving heart.  Whether we think “this is” or “this is not” he thought, both tend to produce a listless, idle mode of life.  But when with equal mind we see the truth, then certainty is produced and no more doubt.  If we rely for support on wealth or form, then wild confusion and concupiscence result:  inconstant and impure.  But lust and covetous desire removed, the heart of love and equal thoughts produced, there can be then no enemies or friends, but the heart is pitiful and kindly disposed to all, and thus is destroyed the power of anger and of hate.  Trusting to outward things and their relationships, then crowding thoughts of every kind are gendered.  Reflecting well, and crushing out confusing thought, then lust for pleasure is destroyed.  Though born in the Arupa world he saw that there would be a remnant of life still left; unacquainted with the four right truths, he had felt an eager longing for this deliverance, for the quiet resulting from the absence of all thought.  And now putting away forever covetous desire for such a formless state of being, his restless heart was agitated still, as the stream is excited by the rude wind.  Then entering on deep reflection in quiet he subdued his troubled mind, and realized the truth of there being no “self,” and that therefore birth and death are no realities; but beyond this point he rose not:  his thought of “self” destroyed, all else was lost.  But now the lamp of wisdom lit, the gloom of every doubt dispersed,