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URAGAVAGGA.
11. VIGAYASUTTA. A reflection on the worthlessness of the human body; a follower of Buddha only sees the body as it really is, and consequently goes to Nibbâna.-Comp. Gâtaka I, p. 146.
1. If either walking or standing, sitting or lying, any one contracts (or) stretches (his body, then) this is the motion of the body.
(192) 2. The body which is put together with bones and sinews, plastered with membrane and flesh, and covered with skin, is not seen as it really is. (193)
3. It is filled with the intestines, the stomach, the lump of the liver, the abdomen, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, the spleen.
(194) 4. With mucus, saliva, perspiration, lymph, blood, the fluid that lubricates the joints, bile, and fat. (195)
5. Then in nine streams impurity flows always from it; from the eye the eye-excrement, from the ear the ear-excrement,
(196) 6. Mucus from the nose, through the mouth it ejects at one time bile and (at other times) it ejects phlegm, and from (all) the body come sweat and dirt.
(197) 7. Then its hollow head is filled with the brain. A fool led by ignorance thinks it a fine thing.
(198) 8. And when it lies dead, swollen and livid, discarded in the cemetery, relatives do not care (for it).
(199) 9. Dogs eat it and jackals, wolves and worms; crows and vultures eat it, and what other living creatures there are.
1. (200) 10. The Bhikkhu possessed of understanding in this world, having listened to Buddha's words, he
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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 |