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Rh the four foolish beings, fear what they should not be afraid of.

The fourteenth day of the dark half of a month, a dense forest, an overclouded sky, and midnight—these are the four kinds of darkness: darkness, however great each of these is, an ignorant man is darker still.

An ignorant man does not free himself from suffering, being like a log in (the ocean of) transmigration; therefore two kinds of worldlings have been spoken of by Gotama, the kinsman of the sun,—one a worldling who is blind, and the other a worldling who is intelligent.

By the eye of "mental clearness" one sees an object to be plain and unconcealed—he sees nothing else; by the eye of knowledge he sees everything without doubt.

It is true that an officer, going in search of gain, saved from suffering a Brahman who, was returning (home), having known, by his wisdom, that a snake, from the smell of flour-cake, had entered into the (alms) bag (of the Brahman).