The wise
“paṇḍita”
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the wise · the highest [in understanding] · this the wise declare · wise one
in the texts
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
A recurring figure of discernment contrasted with 'fools': the one whose wisdom allows him to turn poison, passion, and defilement into the means of liberation rather than bondage.
Just as a wise swan drinks the milk poured into water [leaving the water behind], so the wise one, having enjoyed sense-objects ({{term:
but those of highest understanding, knowing the [true] nature of form, are liberated.
Just as copper rubbed with mercury becomes flawless gold, so through the purification of gnosis the defilements (kleśa) rightly become makers of welfare.
Manusmṛti
An unnamed collective of sages/authorities credited with declaring the folk-etymology of meat.
54 // 'Me he' (`māṃ saḥ`) will devour in the next world, whose flesh I eat here—this the wise declare to be the `māṃsa`-ness of meat.