Very Brilliant is the Mind
released into Universal Friendliness!
Whatever meritorious action one performs, all these together are not worth
1/16th
part of a mind released into friendliness, since the mind released into
friendliness
- all by itself - blazes forth, outshines all these with an unsurpassable
brilliance...
Just as the radiance from all the stars and planets does not match even a 1/16th
part of the radiance from the moon, which thus outshines all the stars and
planets,
similarly; whatever intention making one do meritorious actions, all these
together
are not worth one-sixteenth fraction, of the mind released by global
friendliness!!!
Since a mind released into friendliness - all alone - friends!! blazes forth,
outshine
all these with an incomparable radiance... Just as the mighty sun, friends,
rising at
autumn dawn, by making any misty fog evaporate, scattering any dark
thundercloud,
makes the sky all blue & clear, so it alone freely shines, blazes in a blue
brilliance,
- exactly like that - whatever thoughts there may be for gaining merit, all
together
these are not worth one sixteenth fraction, of a mind released into
friendliness!!!
Since the mind released into friendliness - all alone - friends! - outshines all
these
with inestimable luminosity! Just as Venus, friends, in early morning rise to
stand
lighting up all directions of the dark, indiscriminately shining, blazing in
brilliance,
just like that; whatever motivations there may be behind doing good, all these
summed
up, are not worth one sixteenth fraction of a mind released into friendliness!
Since a
mind released into universal friendliness - all by itself - friends, blazes
fiery forth,
and outshines all such with a matchless brightness...
So did the Lord Buddha state this matter, and in this context he further added:
For the noble friend, who by will, who fully aware, who deliberately bring
infinite,
boundless and endless friendliness into being, this mountain like limitless
goodwill
makes all evil substrate evaporate, & the chains of mind, these mental fetters
become
thin, slender & slack. If a friend without ill will cares for even one single
living being,
such friend, through that, becomes quite skilled and clever, so far more the
case for
the Noble Friend, who by possessing a caring heart for all sentient beings,
without
even a single exception, accumulates great, massive, and immense amounts of
merit!!!
Those gurus & priests who sacrifices life, objects or fire, who baths
ceremoniously,
devoted to mere forms and empty ritual, blindly attached to & obsessed by
culture,
tradition of primeval & unknown origin, do never experience even a sixteenth of
this
release of mind by friendliness fully brought into being, just like the
vagueness of
even all the stars together, cannot either ever outshine the moon! Since there
cannot
be any animosity whatsoever, nor enmity at all, neither even an atomic trace of
hate
in a Nobly Released One, who by caring indiscriminately and infinitely for all
living
beings, who by possessing such treasure of a mind relinquished by friendliness,
simply
cannot ever suppress, dominate, harm, nor kill any sentient being, & who neither
ever
can cause any other to suppress, dominate, harm, or kill any sentient breathing
being!
Source:
The Itivuttaka 27: Thus what it Said:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404214
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/iti/index.html
