Khuddaka Nikaya - Jataka - Dukanipata - Saketa Jataka

Jataka Vol. II: Book II. Dukanipāta: No. 237. Sāketa-Jātaka



No. 237.
SĀKETA-JĀTAKA.
"Why are hearts cold," etc.--This story the Master told during a stay near
Sāketa, about a brahmin named Sāketa. Both the circumstances that suggested the
story and the story itself have already been given in the First Book 3.
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[235]...And when the Tathāgata had gone to the monastery, the Brother asked,
"How, Sir, did the love begin? "and repeated the first stanza:--
Why are hearts cold to one--O Buddha, tell!--
And love another so exceeding well?"
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The Master explained the nature of love by the second stanza:
"Those love they who in other lives were dear,
As sure as grows the lotus in the mere."
After this discourse was ended, the Master identified the Birth:--"These two
people were the brahmin and his wife in the story; and I was their son."



Footnotes
162:3 No. 68.



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