WORLD AND INDIVIDUAL what they get is still more pain They see things only with the eyes of flesh.7 (II) The eye of dharma: The analysts who lay bare these links under stand these as leading to suffering ; they strive to put an end to its roots, the afflictions (klefa.� , and they cultivate elements of goodness con ducive to this end They analyse all things by means of the eye of dharma They loath at heart and seek to become free from the suffering of old-age, disease and death They seek to know the origin of old-age and death (They understand that these) proceed from birth (the embodiment) that comes from deeds (karma) and passion (klesa) (They understand that) the source of klesas is ignorance It is due to ignorance that people give up what they should take up and take up what they should abandon (622a-b) The ignorant seize the klefas and abandon their cultivation of the moral life which should be eamesdy pursued But the analysts who analyse and see things more clearly and seek to abandon the root of suffering and cultivate the factors of the Way so only in order to seek freedom for their own sake Again, they not press their enquiry further to know the ultimate nature of suffering {/F�.3k).73 They are not interested in comprehending the ultimate nature of things The seeking of freedom for one's own sake as well as the absence of the zest to pursue one's enquiry up to the ultimate nature of things have their common root in one's tendency to cling to the specific, the determinate, as itself ultimate This tendency forbids one from realizing the essential relatedness of oneself with all the rest, as well as from recognizing the undivided being as the ultimate reality The lack of patience and of firmness of purpose, the lack of the zest to know the ultimate truth of things function as obstacles Clinging to the determi nate as itself the ultimate these people end in the extreme of etemalism They remain blind to the consequences of their own views by their 43 NAGARJUNA'S PHILOSOPHY sheer unwillingness to proceed filrthet' They will indeed put an end to the kleSas by the cultivation of the moral life ; but they will have failed to attain to the complete comprehension of the ultimate truth They will have also failed to prove true to the spirit of the teaching of their master, the Buddha, viz., the spirit of lUllimited wisdom and unbounded comp assi on , (III) The eye of wisdom : The bodhisattvas, however, are men of great power md of great wisdom Being sharp in understanding, these pursue their en quiry in order to know nothing short of the ultimate nature (m.;Jt1tm), the root-nature, of the twelve links (+= j;§ �;j:Jt*tl3 ) They pursue their enquiry to the very end They not allow themselves to sink out of grief or fear in the mid-way In their pursuit they not seize anything determinate as stable or substantial (��: