[112] Kern, Manual of Indian Buddhism, p. 73.
[113] Hitopadesa, quoted by Monier-Williams, Indian Wisdom, p. 538.
[114] Hopkins, op. cit. p. 291.
[115] Oldenberg, op. cit. p. 212 sq. Monier-Williams, Buddhism, p. 99.
[116] Dhammapada, 186 sq.
[117] Ibid. 141. See also Oldenberg, op. cit. p. 301 sq.
The idea that man ought to liberate himself from the bondage of earthly desires is the conclusion of a contemplative mind reflecting upon the short duration and emptiness of all bodily pleasures and the allurements by which they lead men into misery and sin. And separation from the material world is the ideal of the religious enthusiast whose highest aspiration is union with God conceived as an immaterial being, as pure spirit.
CHAPTER XL
MARRIAGE
MAN’S sexual nature gives rise to various modes of conduct on which moral judgments are passed. We shall first consider such relations between the sexes as are comprised under the heading Marriage.