All 39 Uses of
exalt
in
Siddhartha
- At one time, when the two young men had lived among the Samanas for about three years and had shared their exercises, some news, a rumour, a myth reached them after being retold many times: A man had appeared, Gotama by name, the exalted one, the Buddha, he had overcome the suffering of the world in himself and had halted the cycle of rebirths.†
Chpt 2
- Everywhere where the rumour of Buddha was heard, everywhere in the lands of India, the young men listened up, felt a longing, felt hope, and among the Brahmans' sons of the towns and villages every pilgrim and stranger was welcome, when he brought news of him, the exalted one, the Sakyamuni.†
Chpt 2
- GOTAMA In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones.†
Chpt 3
- Near the town was Gotama's favourite place to stay, the grove of Jetavana, which the rich merchant Anathapindika, an obedient worshipper of the exalted one, had given him and his people for a gift.†
Chpt 3
- You should know, in Jetavana, in the garden of Anathapindika is where the exalted one dwells.†
Chpt 3
- Quoth the woman: "Many times I have seen him, the exalted one.†
Chpt 3
- With a soft, yet firm voice the exalted one spoke, taught the four main doctrines, taught the eightfold path, patiently he went the usual path of the teachings, of the examples, of the repetitions, brightly and quietly his voice hovered over the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.†
Chpt 3
- Behold, then Govinda, the shy one, also stepped forward and spoke: "I also take my refuge in the exalted one and his teachings," and he asked to accepted into the community of his disciples and was accepted.†
Chpt 3
- We have both heard the exalted one, we have both perceived the teachings.†
Chpt 3
- Tell me, since it could not be any other way, that you also, my learned friend, will take your refuge with the exalted Buddha!†
Chpt 3
- This is what the teachings require, this is what the exalted one wants.†
Chpt 3
- Very good are the teachings of the exalted one, how could I find a fault in them?†
Chpt 3
- Then he happened to meet Gotama, the exalted one, and when he greeted him with respect and the Buddha's glance was so full of kindness and calm, the young man summoned his courage and asked the venerable one for the permission to talk to him.†
Chpt 3
- Silently the exalted one nodded his approval.†
Chpt 3
- Quoth Siddhartha: "Yesterday, oh exalted one, I had been privileged to hear your wondrous teachings.†
Chpt 3
- "Too bold is my speech," Siddhartha continued, "but I do not want to leave the exalted one without having honestly told him my thoughts.†
Chpt 3
- Whether it may be good or bad, whether living according to it would be suffering or joy, I do not wish to discuss, possibly this is not essential—but the uniformity of the world, that everything which happens is connected, that the great and the small things are all encompassed by the same forces of time, by the same law of causes, of coming into being and of dying, this is what shines brightly out of your exalted teachings, oh perfected one.†
Chpt 3
- "I wish that you, oh exalted one, would not be angry with me," said the young man.†
Chpt 3
- And—thus is my thought, oh exalted one,—nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!†
Chpt 3
- But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself, he alone among hundreds of thousands.†
Chpt 3
- But often, I'll think of this day, oh exalted one, and of this hour, when my eyes beheld a holy man.†
Chpt 3
- Salvation from the self is what we Samanas search for, oh exalted one.†
Chpt 3
- When he had left in this very morning from the grove Jetavana, the grove of that exalted one, already awakening, already on the path towards himself, he he had every intention, regarded as natural and took for granted, that he, after years as an ascetic, would return to his home and his father.†
Chpt 4
- On the way, Siddhartha also remembered everything he had experienced in the Garden Jetavana, the teaching he had heard there, the divine Buddha, the farewell from Govinda, the conversation with the exalted one.†
Chpt 5
- Again he remembered his own words, he had spoken to the exalted one, every word, and with astonishment he became aware of the fact that there he had said things which he had not really known yet at this time.†
Chpt 5
- It is that Gotama, the exalted one, who is spreading that teachings.
Chpt 6 *exalted = elevated (praised and honored)
- For a long time, he had to tell her about the exalted Buddha, and Kamala had sighed and had said: "One day, perhaps soon, I'll also follow that Buddha.†
Chpt 7
- He observed the man, who had neither hair on his head nor a beard, and he had not observed him for long when he recognised this monk as Govinda, the friend of his youth, Govinda who had taken his refuge with the exalted Buddha.†
Chpt 8
- I, oh sir, am a follower of the exalted Gotama, the Buddha, the Sakyamuni, and have been on a pilgrimage together with several of us on this path, when I saw you lying and sleeping in a place where it is dangerous to sleep.†
Chpt 8
- You're friendly, you followers of the exalted one.†
Chpt 8
- I know you, oh Govinda, from your father's hut, and from the school of the Brahmans, and from the offerings, and from our walk to the Samanas, and from that hour when you took your refuge with the exalted one in the grove Jetavana.†
Chpt 8
- Then, at one time, monks came by on a pilgrimage, followers of Gotama, the Buddha, who were asking to be ferried across the river, and by them the ferrymen were told that they were most hurriedly walking back to their great teacher, for the news had spread the exalted one was deadly sick and would soon die his last human death, in order to become one with the salvation.†
Chpt 9
- Kindly, he thought of him, saw his path to perfection before his eyes, and remembered with a smile those words which he had once, as a young man, said to him, the exalted one.†
Chpt 9
- When the exalted Gotama spoke in his teachings of the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into deception and truth, into suffering and salvation.†
Chpt 12
- But this very thing was discovered by the exalted one to be a deception.†
Chpt 12
- So differently sound the exalted one's pure teachings, clearer, purer, more comprehensible, nothing strange, foolish, or silly is contained in them.†
Chpt 12
- Never again, after our exalted Gotama has become one with the Nirvana, never since then have I met a person of whom I felt: this is a holy man!†
Chpt 12
- May his teachings be strange, may his words sound foolish; out of his gaze and his hand, his skin and his hair, out of every part of him shines a purity, shines a calmness, shines a cheerfulness and mildness and holiness, which I have seen in no other person since the final death of our exalted teacher.†
Chpt 12
- The face was unchanged, after under its surface the depth of the thousandfoldness had closed up again, he smiled silently, smiled quietly and softly, perhaps very benevolently, perhaps very mockingly, precisely as he used to smile, the exalted one.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(exalt) praise, glorify, or honor
or:
fill with extreme happiness