the disciple
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
world-weary [disciple]
in the texts
Paramārthasāra
The unnamed questioner who, tormented by the cycle of birth and death, asks the teacher about the highest reality.
Bewildered and tossed about by the wheel of suffering that runs from dwelling in the womb to the agony of death, the disciple asked the Blessed One, Ādhāra, about the paramārtha (the supreme/highest reality or goal).
Paramārthasāra
The unnamed interlocutor whose question to his teacher initiates and frames the entire discourse.
Who is it that, by [endless] goings and comings here, experiences {{karma|action and its ripening fruit}} that yields fruit good and ill?
From that bondage — a dense thicket of the darkness of delusion — how is its release ({{mokṣa|release, the cutting of the knot of ignorance}}) [to come]?
I ask, O Blessed One, the question of crossing the ocean of {{mokṣa|release, here defined as cutting the knot of ignorance}}-bound transmigration (saṃsāra).
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
An unnamed disciple who questions the sage about suffering and the means to liberation, framing the treatise as instruction.
[A disciple asks:
Thus questioned, the sage—a treasury of compassion—spoke to the world-weary [disciple]: