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DHAMMAPADA. CHAP. XX.
278. ‘All created things are grief and pain," he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain ; this is the way that leads to purity.
279. 'All forms are unreal,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.
280. He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.
281. Watching his speech, well restrained in mind, let a man never commit any wrong with his body! Let a man but keep these three roads of action clear, and he will achieve the way which is taught by the wise.
282. Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
283. Cut down the whole forest (of lust), not a tree only! Danger comes out of the forest (of lust). When you have cut down both the forest (of lust) and its undergrowth, then, Bhikshus, you will be rid of the forest and free!
278. See v. 203.
279. Dhamma is here explained, like sankhâra, as the five khandha, i.e. as what constitutes a living body.
281. Cf. Beal, Catena, p. 159.
282. Bhûri was rightly translated intelligentia' by Dr. Fausböll. Dr.Weber renders it by 'Gedeihen,' but the commentator distinctly explains it as 'vast knowledge, and in the technical sense the word occurs after vidyâ and before medhâ, in the Lalita-vistara, p. 541.
283. A pun, vana meaning both · lust' and 'forest.' See some mistaken remarks on this verse in D'Alwis, Nirvâna, p. 86, and some good remarks in Childers, Notes, p. 7.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |