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When that is done, you have to get the crop carried away. When that is done, you have to get it arranged into bundles. When that is done, you have to get it trodden out. When that is done, you have to get the straw picked out. When that is done you have to get the chaff removed. When that is done, you have to get it winnowed. When that is done, you have to get the harvest garnered. When that is done, you have to do just the same next year, and the same all over again the year after that.
“The work is never over ; one sees not the end of one’s labour. O, when shall our work be over ? When shall we see the end of our labours ? When shall we, still possessing and retaining the pleasures of our five senses, yet dwell at rest ? Yes, the work, dear Anuruddha, is never over ; no end appears to our labours.”
“Then do you take thought for the household duties. I will go forth from the household life into the houseless state,” said Anuruddha.
And Anuruddha, the Sakyan, went to his mother, and said to her. “I want, mother, to go forth from the household life into the houseless state. Grant me thy permission to do so.”
And when he had thus spoken, his mother replied to Anuruddha, the Sakyan, saying : “You two, dear Anuruddha, are my two sons, near and dear to me, in whom I find no evil. Through death I shall some day, against my will, be separated from you but how can I be willing, whilst you are still alive, that you should go forth from the household life into the houseless state ?”
And a second time Anuruddha made the same request, and received the same reply. And a third time Anuruddha made the same request to his mother.
Now at that time Bhaddiya, the Sakyan Raja, held rule over the Sakyans ; and he was a friend of Anuruddha. And the mother of Anuruddha, thinking that that being so, the raja would not be able to renounce the world, said to her son: “Dear Anuruddha,
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