125. Q. How may we gain such a conquest?
A. By following the Noble Eight-fold Path which the Buddha discovered and pointed out.
126. Q. What do you mean by that word: what is this Noble Eight-fold Path? (For the Pālī name see Q. [79].)
A. The eight parts of this path are called angas. They are: 1. Right Belief (as to the law of Causation, or Karma); 2. Right Thought; 3. Right Speech; 4. Right Action; 5. Right Means of Livelihood; 6. Right Exertion; 7. Right Remembrance and Self-discipline; 8. Right Concentration of Thought. The man who keeps these angas in mind and follows them will be free from sorrow and ultimately reach salvation.
127. Q. Can you give a better word for salvation?
A. Yes, emancipation.
128. Q. Emancipation, then, from what?
A. Emancipation from the miseries of earthly existence and of rebirths, all of which are due to ignorance and impure lusts and cravings.
129. Q. And when this salvation or emancipation is attained, what do we reach?
A. NIRVĀNA.