"Mara" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turned to that retirement and absorption in which it was believed that the key to life's pains and mysteries was to be found. In the "Great Renunciation," as this act is called, there is nothing we cannot understand. This lofty act, however, was followed by a temptation; Mara, the spirit of evil, urged him, but urged him in vain, to give up the purpose he had formed. He then attached himself to Brahmanic ascetics, from whom he learned their philosophy; and after this he devoted himself for six years to a life of fasting and penance, ...
— History of Religion - A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems • Allan Menzies
... phta ca vitthrika{m} bhujaa{m} puthubhta{m}, yvad eva manusschi suppaksitan ti. 'Owicked one, Iwill not die until this my holy religion thrives and prospers, until it is widely spread, known to many peoples, and grown great, until it is completely published among men.' Mara again asserts that this is already the case, and Buddha replies, 'Strive no more, wicked one, the death of the Tathagata is at hand, at the end of three months from this time, the Tathgata will ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... dispersing his philosophic opinions to the right and the left, like a Grecian philosopher. The first time I saw him was at a concert in the Upper Rooms; he was pointed out to me by one of my party as a very eccentric man who had walked over the habitable globe. I remember that Madame Mara was at that moment singing: and Walking Stewart, who was a true lover of music (as I afterwards came to know), was hanging upon her notes like a bee upon a jessamine flower. His countenance was striking, ...
— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey
... not Naomi," she said unto them. "Call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.[146-1] I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester |
