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These censures began in early times; we find them in the famous dialogues between Nagasena and Milinda, the king Menander, about 100 B.C. And yet we know how, in spite of all warnings given by the founder of Buddhism, this religion was soon entirely overgrown with metaphysics; and how, finally, metaphysics as Abbidharma found an acknowledged place in the Sacred Canon of the Buddhists.
It is without stability, without movement, without basis: it is the end of sorrow, unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, uncompounded ." The statements about nirvana in the Questions of Milinda are definite and interesting. In this work , Nâgasena tells King Milinda that there are two things which are not the result of a cause, to wit space and Nirvana.
And we claim that this view finds corroboration in the best interpretation of Oriental philosophies and religions, as well as in the Christian doctrine. Says Nagasena, the Buddhist sage: "He who is not free from passion experiences both the taste of food, and also the passion due to that taste; while he who is free from passion experiences the taste of food but no passion."
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