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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
and a totally different thing is to really work on self-improvement in each of your days,
to master spiritual techniques, to control your thoughts. For instance, in treatises of
Buddhism which we’ve discussed, the ability of a person to control his or her
preternatural powers is called the possession of “miraculous powers”. Same treatises
also say that a perfect man can influence the world “right up to Brahma’s Heavens” (the
seventh dimension), while the way to “the Brahma’s Heavens” starts with renouncing
the attachment for the Six Passion Worlds “of the circle of existence”. For example, in
the Tripitaka code of Buddhist sacred texts there is an interesting sutra called “On the
Fruits of Hermitry”. By the way, the Sanskrit literally means “a thread on which pearls
are strung”; in Old Hindu literature they called so a fragmentary statement and later — a
code of such statements. To tell the truth, reading the Tripitaka sacred texts including the
“On the Fruits of Hermitry” sutra, one should bear in mind that these texts contain not
Buddha’s genuine words, but his teaching which has been transferred by word of mouth
for a long time and written down much later. At that, in the process of the Buddhist
religion establishment over centuries, numerous amendments were made thereto. In
other words, one should take into account that these texts are not the initial information,
but only an interpretation of that made by human minds over centuries. If a person does
not know the niceties of the spiritual work and has no practical meditative experience,
he or she would naturally retell, interpret or translate the obtained information into other
languages, being guided solely by his or her world outlook and his or her own
understanding of the matter, say, from a position of the three-dimensional world
inhabitant.
So, this sutra mentions Buddha’s conversation with Adjatasatty, the king of Magadha
(an ancient country once situated in the northeast of India). The king asks Buddha what
is “the visible fruit of hermitry”, i.e. what is the result of spiritual practices in this world.
Buddha explains this to the king, using everyday allegories understandable for an
ordinary man, and recounts the teaching of the Way which is passed by a monk as a
person practicing self-improvement techniques, meditations, and aspiring to reach
Nirvana. This sutra also mentions that a monk must follow the moral behaviour
commandments, tells about the joys of self-restraints, the outcomes of spiritual selfimprovement.
Furthermore, it is emphasized there that a monk understands the outcome
of his work with his “mind being in samadhi, pure, clear,… obedient and alert, having
achieved impassivity…”. The “samadhi” state in translation from Sanskrit means
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