  All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is
  founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.  If a man
  speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel
  follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. 1

  All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is
  founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.  If a man
  speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a
  shadow that never leaves him. 2

		-- F Max Muller
%
  "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those
  who harbour such thoughts hatred will never cease. 3

  "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those
  who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease. 4

		-- F Max Muller
%
  For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by
  love, this is an old rule. 5

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The world does not know that we must all come to an end here;--but
  those who know it, their quarrels cease at once. 6

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncontrolled,
  immoderate in his food, idle, and weak, Mara (the tempter) will
  certainly overthrow him, as the wind throws down a weak tree. 7

  He who lives without looking for pleasures, his senses well
  controlled, moderate in his food, faithful and strong, him Mara will
  certainly not overthrow, any more than the wind throws down a rocky
  mountain. 8

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed
  himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of
  the yellow dress. 9

  But he who has cleansed himself from sin, is well grounded in all
  virtues, and regards also temperance and truth, he is indeed worthy of
  the yellow dress. 10

		-- F Max Muller
%
  They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never
  arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. 11

  They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at
  truth, and follow true desires. 12

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break
  through an unreflecting mind. 13

  As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will
  not break through a well-reflecting mind. 14

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The evil-doer mourns in this world, and he mourns in the next; he
  mourns in both.  He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his
  own work. 15

  The virtuous man delights in this world, and he delights in the
  next; he delights in both.  He delights and rejoices, when he sees the
  purity of his own work. 16

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The evil-doer suffers in this world, and he suffers in the next;
  he suffers in both.  He suffers when he thinks of the evil he has
  done; he suffers more when going on the evil path. 17

  The virtuous man is happy in this world, and he is happy in the
  next; he is happy in both.  He is happy when he thinks of the good he
  has done; he is still more happy when going on the good path. 18

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The thoughtless man, even if he can recite a large portion (of the
  law), but is not a doer of it, has no share in the priesthood, but is
  like a cowherd counting the cows of others. 19

  The follower of the law, even if he can recite only a small
  portion (of the law), but, having forsaken passion and hatred and
  foolishness, possesses true knowledge and serenity of mind, he, caring
  for nothing in this world or that to come, has indeed a share in the
  priesthood. 20

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness
  the path of death.  Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are
  thoughtless are as if dead already. 21

  Those who are advanced in earnestness, having understood this
  clearly, delight in earnestness, and rejoice in the knowledge of the
  Ariyas (the elect). 22

		-- F Max Muller
%
  These wise people, meditative, steady, always possessed of strong
  powers, attain to Nirvana, the highest happiness. 23

  If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful,
  if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains
  himself, and lives according to law,--then his glory will increase. 24

		-- F Max Muller
%
  By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the
  wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. 25

  Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom.  The wise man keeps
  earnestness as his best jewel. 26

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust!
  He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy. 27

  When the learned man drives away vanity by earnestness, he, the
  wise, climbing the terraced heights of wisdom, looks down upon the
  fools, serene he looks upon the toiling crowd, as one that stands on a
  mountain looks down upon them that stand upon the plain. 28

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise
  man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack. 29

  By earnestness did Maghavan (Indra) rise to the lordship of the
  gods.  People praise earnestness; thoughtlessness is always blamed. 30

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A Bhikshu (mendicant) who delights in earnestness, who looks with
  fear on thoughtlessness, moves about like fire, burning all his
  fetters, small or large. 31

  A Bhikshu (mendicant) who delights in reflection, who looks with
  fear on thoughtlessness, cannot fall away (from his perfect state)--he
  is close upon Nirvana. 32

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight
  his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard,
  difficult to hold back. 33

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown on dry ground, our
  thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of Mara (the
  tempter). 34

  It is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in and
  flighty, rushing wherever it listeth; a tamed mind brings happiness. 35

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let the wise man guard his thoughts, for they are difficult to
  perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list: thoughts well
  guarded bring happiness. 36

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Those who bridle their mind which travels far, moves about alone,
  is without a body, and hides in the chamber (of the heart), will be
  free from the bonds of Mara (the tempter). 37

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man's thoughts are unsteady, if he does not know the true
  law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be
  perfect. 38

  If a man's thoughts are not dissipated, if his mind is not
  perplexed, if he has ceased to think of good or evil, then there is no
  fear for him while he is watchful. 39

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Knowing that this body is (fragile) like a jar, and making this
  thought firm like a fortress, one should attack Mara (the tempter)
  with the weapon of knowledge, one should watch him when conquered, and
  should never rest. 40

  Before long, alas! this body will lie on the earth, despised,
  without understanding, like a useless log. 41

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy, a
  wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief. 42

  Not a mother, not a father will do so much, nor any other
  relative; a well-directed mind will do us greater service. 43

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Who shall overcome this earth, and the world of Yama (the lord of
  the departed), and the world of the gods?  Who shall find out the
  plainly shown path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the (right)
  flower? 44

  The disciple will overcome the earth, and the world of Yama, and
  the world of the gods.  The disciple will find out the plainly shown
  path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the (right) flower. 45

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it
  is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow
  of Mara, and never see the king of death. 46

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is
  distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village. 47

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is
  distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. 48

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the
  flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village. 49

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or
  omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take
  notice of. 50

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are
  the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly. 51

  But, like a beautiful flower, full of colour and full of scent,
  are the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly. 52

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a heap of flowers, so
  many good things may be achieved by a mortal when once he is born. 53

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor (that
  of) sandal-wood, or of Tagara and Mallika flowers; but the odour of
  good people travels even against the wind; a good man pervades every
  place. 54

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Sandal-wood or Tagara, a lotus-flower, or a Vassiki, among these
  sorts of perfumes, the perfume of virtue is unsurpassed. 55

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Mean is the scent that comes from Tagara and sandal-wood;--the
  perfume of those who possess virtue rises up to the gods as the
  highest. 56

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Of the people who possess these virtues, who live without
  thoughtlessness, and who are emancipated through true knowledge, Mara,
  the tempter, never finds the way. 57

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As on a heap of rubbish cast upon the highway the lily will
  grow full of sweet perfume and delight, thus the disciple of the truly
  enlightened Buddha shines forth by his knowledge among those who are
  like rubbish, among the people that walk in darkness. 58, 59

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who
  is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law. 60

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his
  equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no
  companionship with a fool. 61

		-- F Max Muller
%
  "These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me," with
  such thoughts a fool is tormented.  He himself does not belong to
  himself; how much less sons and wealth? 62

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far.  But
  a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed. 63

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a fool be associated with a wise man even all his life, he will
  perceive the truth as little as a spoon perceives the taste of soup. 64

  If an intelligent man be associated for one minute only with a
  wise man, he will soon perceive the truth, as the tongue perceives the
  taste of soup. 65

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Fools of little understanding have themselves for their greatest
  enemies, for they do evil deeds which must bear bitter fruits. 66

		-- F Max Muller
%
  That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the
  reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face. 67

  No, that deed is well done of which a man does not repent, and the
  reward of which he receives gladly and cheerfully. 68

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As long as the evil deed done does not bear fruit, the fool thinks
  it is like honey; but when it ripens, then the fool suffers grief. 69

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let a fool month after month eat his food (like an ascetic) with
  the tip of a blade of Kusa grass, yet he is not worth the sixteenth
  particle of those who have well weighed the law. 70

		-- F Max Muller
%
  An evil deed, like newly-drawn milk, does not turn (suddenly);
  smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, it follows the fool. 71

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And when the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow
  to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his
  head. 72

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let the fool wish for a false reputation, for precedence among the
  Bhikshus, for lordship in the convents, for worship among other
  people! 73

  "May both the layman and he who has left the world think that this
  is done by me; may they be subject to me in everything which is to be
  done or is not to be done," thus is the mind of the fool, and his
  desire and pride increase. 74

  "One is the road that leads to wealth, another the road that leads
  to Nirvana;" if the Bhikshu, the disciple of Buddha, has learnt this,
  he will not yearn for honour, he will strive after separation from the
  world. 75

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures
  are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers
  reproofs, follow that wise man; it will be better, not worse, for
  those who follow him. 76

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let him admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper!-
  -he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated. 77

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for
  friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best
  of men. 78

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the
  sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect (Ariyas). 79

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend
  the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion
  themselves. 80

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not
  amidst blame and praise. 81

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Wise people, after they have listened to the laws, become serene,
  like a deep, smooth, and still lake. 82

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Good people walk on whatever befall, the good do not prattle,
  longing for pleasure; whether touched by happiness or sorrow wise
  people never appear elated or depressed. 83

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If, whether for his own sake, or for the sake of others, a man
  wishes neither for a son, nor for wealth, nor for lordship, and if he
  does not wish for his own success by unfair means, then he is good,
  wise, and virtuous. 84

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Few are there among men who arrive at the other shore (become
  Arhats); the other people here run up and down the shore. 85

  But those who, when the law has been well preached to them, follow
  the law, will pass across the dominion of death, however difficult to
  overcome. 86

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A wise man should leave the dark state (of ordinary life), and
  follow the bright state (of the Bhikshu).  After going from his home
  to a homeless state, he should in his retirement look for enjoyment
  where there seemed to be no enjoyment.  Leaving all pleasures behind,
  and calling nothing his own, the wise man should purge himself from
  all the troubles of the mind. 87, 88

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Those whose mind is well grounded in the (seven) elements of
  knowledge, who without clinging to anything, rejoice in freedom from
  attachment, whose appetites have been conquered, and who are full of
  light, are free (even) in this world. 89

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and
  abandoned grief, who has freed himself on all sides, and thrown off
  all fetters. 90

		-- F Max Muller
%
  They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy
  in their abode; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their
  house and home. 91

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Men who have no riches, who live on recognised food, who have
  perceived void and unconditioned freedom (Nirvana), their path is
  difficult to understand, like that of birds in the air. 92

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He whose appetites are stilled, who is not absorbed in enjoyment,
  who has perceived void and unconditioned freedom (Nirvana), his path
  is difficult to understand, like that of birds in the air. 93

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The gods even envy him whose senses, like horses well broken in by
  the driver, have been subdued, who is free from pride, and free from
  appetites. 94

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Such a one who does his duty is tolerant like the earth, like
  Indra's bolt; he is like a lake without mud; no new births are in
  store for him. 95

		-- F Max Muller
%
  His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has
  obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet
  man. 96

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who
  has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he
  is the greatest of men. 97

		-- F Max Muller
%
  In a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water or on the dry land,
  wherever venerable persons (Arhanta) dwell, that place is delightful. 98

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there
  the passionless will find delight, for they look not for pleasures. 99

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of
  senseless words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he
  becomes quiet. 100

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Even though a Gatha (poem) be a thousand (of words), but made up
  of senseless words, one word of a Gatha is better, which if a man
  hears, he becomes quiet. 101

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Though a man recite a hundred Gathas made up of senseless words,
  one word of the law is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet. 102

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and
  if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors. 103

		-- F Max Muller
%
  One's own self conquered is better than all other people;
  not even a god, a Gandharva, not Mara with Brahman could change into
  defeat the victory of a man who has vanquished himself, and always
  lives under restraint. 104, 105

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man for a hundred years sacrifice month after month with a
  thousand, and if he but for one moment pay homage to a man whose soul
  is grounded (in true knowledge), better is that homage than sacrifice
  for a hundred years. 106

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man for a hundred years worship Agni (fire) in the forest,
  and if he but for one moment pay homage to a man whose soul is
  grounded (in true knowledge), better is that homage than sacrifice for
  a hundred years. 107

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Whatever a man sacrifice in this world as an offering or as an
  oblation for a whole year in order to gain merit, the whole of it is
  not worth a quarter (a farthing); reverence shown to the righteous is
  better. 108

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who always greets and constantly reveres the aged, four things
  will increase to him, viz. life, beauty, happiness, power. 109

		-- F Max Muller
%
  But he who lives a hundred years, vicious and unrestrained, a
  life of one day is better if a man is virtuous and reflecting. 110

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And he who lives a hundred years, ignorant and unrestrained, a
  life of one day is better if a man is wise and reflecting. 111

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one
  day is better if a man has attained firm strength. 112

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing beginning and end, a
  life of one day is better if a man sees beginning and end. 113

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing the immortal place,
  a life of one day is better if a man sees the immortal place. 114

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing the highest law, a
  life of one day is better if a man sees the highest law. 115

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man would hasten towards the good, he should keep his
  thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his
  mind delights in evil. 116

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not
  delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil. 117

  If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight
  in it: happiness is the outcome of good. 118

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Even an evil-doer sees happiness as long as his evil deed has not
  ripened; but when his evil deed has ripened, then does the evil-doer
  see evil. 119

  Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not
  ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man
  see happy days. 120

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will
  not come nigh unto me.  Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot
  is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little
  by little. 121

  Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will
  not come nigh unto me.  Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot
  is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it
  little by little. 122

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let a man avoid evil deeds, as a merchant, if he has few
  companions and carries much wealth, avoids a dangerous road; as a man
  who loves life avoids poison. 123

  He who has no wound on his hand, may touch poison with his hand;
  poison does not affect one who has no wound; nor is there evil for one
  who does not commit evil. 124

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil
  falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. 125

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Some people are born again; evil-doers go to hell; righteous
  people go to heaven; those who are free from all worldly desires
  attain Nirvana. 126

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into 
  the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world 
  where a man might be freed from an evil deed. 127

  Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into
  the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world
  where death could not overcome (the mortal). 128

		-- F Max Muller
%
  All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that
  you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter. 129

  All men tremble at punishment, all men love life; remember that
  thou art like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter. 130

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who seeking his own happiness punishes or kills beings who
  also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death. 131

  He who seeking his own happiness does not punish or kill beings
  who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death. 132

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will
  answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows
  will touch thee. 133

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If, like a shattered metal plate (gong), thou utter not, then
  thou hast reached Nirvana; contention is not known to thee. 134

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As a cowherd with his staff drives his cows into the stable, so
  do Age and Death drive the life of men. 135

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A fool does not know when he commits his evil deeds: but the
  wicked man burns by his own deeds, as if burnt by fire. 136

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who inflicts pain on innocent and harmless persons, will soon
  come to one of these ten states: 137

  He will have cruel suffering, loss, injury of the body, heavy
  affliction, or loss of mind, 138

  Or a misfortune coming from the king, or a fearful accusation, or
  loss of relations, or destruction of treasures, 139

  Or lightning-fire will burn his houses; and when his body is
  destroyed, the fool will go to hell. 140

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Not nakedness, not platted hair, not dirt, not fasting, or lying
  on the earth, not rubbing with dust, not sitting motionless, can
  purify a mortal who has not overcome desires. 141

  He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity,
  is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault
  with all other beings, he indeed is a Brahmana, an ascetic (sramana),
  a friar (bhikshu). 142

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he
  does not mind reproof, as a well-trained horse the whip? 143

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Like a well-trained horse when touched by the whip, be ye active
  and lively, and by faith, by virtue, by energy, by meditation, by
  discernment of the law you will overcome this great pain (of reproof),
  perfect in knowledge and in behaviour, and never forgetful. 144

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend
  the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion
  themselves. 145

		-- F Max Muller
%
  How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always
  burning?  Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by
  darkness? 146

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined
  together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no
  hold! 147

		-- F Max Muller
%
  This body is wasted, full of sickness, and frail; this heap of
  corruption breaks to pieces, life indeed ends in death. 148

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what
  pleasure is there in looking at them? 149

		-- F Max Muller
%
  After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with
  flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and
  deceit. 150

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The brilliant chariots of kings are destroyed, the body also
  approaches destruction, but the virtue of good people never approaches
  destruction,--thus do the good say to the good. 151

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh
  grows, but his knowledge does not grow. 152

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to
  run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him);
  and painful is birth again and again.  But now, maker of the
  tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this
  tabernacle again.  All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is
  sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal (visankhara, nirvana), has
  attained to the extinction of all desires. 153, 154

		-- F Max Muller
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  Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained
  treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without
  fish. 155

		-- F Max Muller
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  Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained
  treasure in their youth, lie, like broken bows, sighing after the
  past. 156

		-- F Max Muller
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  If a man hold himself dear, let him watch himself carefully;
  during one at least out of the three watches a wise man should be
  watchful. 157

		-- F Max Muller
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  Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him
  teach others; thus a wise man will not suffer. 158

		-- F Max Muller
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  If a man make himself as he teaches others to be, then, being
  himself well subdued, he may subdue (others); one's own self is indeed
  difficult to subdue. 159

		-- F Max Muller
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  Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?  With self
  well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find. 160

		-- F Max Muller
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  The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the
  foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. 161

		-- F Max Muller
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  He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that
  state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the
  tree which it surrounds. 162

		-- F Max Muller
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  Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what
  is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do. 163

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (Arahat), of
  the elect (Ariya), of the virtuous, and follows false doctrine, he
  bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka
  reed. 164

		-- F Max Muller
%
  By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself
  evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity
  belong to oneself, no one can purify another. 165

		-- F Max Muller
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  Let no one forget his own duty for the sake of another's, however
  great; let a man, after he has discerned his own duty, be always
  attentive to his duty. 166

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Do not follow the evil law! Do not live on in thoughtlessness! Do
  not follow false doctrine! Be not a friend of the world. 167

		-- F Max Muller
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  Rouse thyself! do not be idle!  Follow the law of virtue!  The
  virtuous rests in bliss in this world and in the next. 168

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous
  rests in bliss in this world and in the next. 169

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage: the
  king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world. 170

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Come, look at this glittering world, like unto a royal chariot;
  the foolish are immersed in it, but the wise do not touch it. 171

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober,
  brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds. 172

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He whose evil deeds are covered by good deeds, brightens up this
  world, like the moon when freed from clouds. 173

		-- F Max Muller
%
  This world is dark, few only can see here; a few only go to
  heaven, like birds escaped from the net. 174

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The swans go on the path of the sun, they go through the ether by
  means of their miraculous power; the wise are led out of this world,
  when they have conquered Mara and his train. 175

		-- F Max Muller
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  If a man has transgressed one law, and speaks lies, and scoffs at
  another world, there is no evil he will not do. 176

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The uncharitable do not go to the world of the gods; fools only
  do not praise liberality; a wise man rejoices in liberality, and
  through it becomes blessed in the other world. 177

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Better than sovereignty over the earth, better than going to
  heaven, better than lordship over all worlds, is the reward of the
  first step in holiness. 178

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He whose conquest is not conquered again, into whose conquest no
  one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the
  Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless? 179

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He whom no desire with its snares and poisons can lead astray, by
  what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the
  trackless? 180

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Even the gods envy those who are awakened and not forgetful, who
  are given to meditation, who are wise, and who delight in the repose
  of retirement (from the world). 181

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Difficult (to obtain) is the conception of men, difficult is the
  life of mortals, difficult is the hearing of the True Law, difficult
  is the birth of the Awakened (the attainment of Buddhahood). 182

		-- F Max Muller
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  Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that
  is the teaching of (all) the Awakened. 183

		-- F Max Muller
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  The Awakened call patience the highest penance, long-suffering
  the highest Nirvana; for he is not an anchorite (pravragita) who
  strikes others, he is not an ascetic (sramana) who insults others. 184

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Not to blame, not to strike, to live restrained under the law, to
  be moderate in eating, to sleep and sit alone, and to dwell on the
  highest thoughts,--this is the teaching of the Awakened. 185

		-- F Max Muller
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  There is no satisfying lusts, even by a shower of gold pieces; he
  who knows that lusts have a short taste and cause pain, he is wise; 186

  Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple
  who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. 187

		-- F Max Muller
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  Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, to mountains and
  forests, to groves and sacred trees. 188

  But that is not a safe refuge, that is not the best refuge; a man
  is not delivered from all pains after having gone to that refuge. 189

  He who takes refuge with Buddha, the Law, and the Church; he who,
  with clear understanding, sees the four holy truths:-- 190

  Viz. pain, the origin of pain, the destruction of pain, and the
  eightfold holy way that leads to the quieting of pain;-- 191

  That is the safe refuge, that is the best refuge; having gone to
  that refuge, a man is delivered from all pain. 192

		-- F Max Muller
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  A supernatural person (a Buddha) is not easily found, he is not
  born everywhere. Wherever such a sage is born, that race prospers. 193

		-- F Max Muller
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  Happy is the arising of the awakened, happy is the teaching of
  the True Law, happy is peace in the church, happy is the devotion of
  those who are at peace. 194

		-- F Max Muller
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  He who pays homage to those who deserve homage, whether the
  awakened (Buddha) or their disciples, those who have overcome the host
  (of evils), and crossed the flood of sorrow, he who pays homage to
  such as have found deliverance and know no fear, his merit can never
  be measured by anybody. 195, 196

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us! among men
  who hate us let us dwell free from hatred! 197

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let us live happily then, free from ailments among the ailing!
  among men who are ailing let us dwell free from ailments! 198

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let us live happily then, free from greed among the greedy! among
  men who are greedy let us dwell free from greed! 199

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let us live happily then, though we call nothing our own! We
  shall be like the bright gods, feeding on happiness! 200

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. He who has
  given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy. 201

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There is no fire like passion; there is no losing throw like
  hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness higher
  than rest. 202

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains;
  if one knows this truly, that is Nirvana, the highest happiness. 203

  Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches;
  trust is the best of relationships, Nirvana the highest happiness. 204

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is
  free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of
  drinking in the law. 205

		-- F Max Muller
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  The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is
  always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy. 206

  He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company
  with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise
  is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk. 207

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Therefore, one ought to follow the wise, the intelligent, the
  learned, the much enduring, the dutiful, the elect; one ought to
  follow a good and wise man, as the moon follows the path of the stars. 208

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to
  meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at
  pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation. 209

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant.
  Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is
  unpleasant. 210

  Let, therefore, no man love anything; loss of the beloved is
  evil. Those who love nothing and hate nothing, have no fetters. 211

		-- F Max Muller
%
  From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is
  free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear. 212

		-- F Max Muller
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  From affection comes grief, from affection comes fear; he who is
  free from affection knows neither grief nor fear. 213

		-- F Max Muller
%
  From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he who is free from
  lust knows neither grief nor fear. 214

		-- F Max Muller
%
  From love comes grief, from love comes fear; he who is free from
  love knows neither grief nor fear. 215

		-- F Max Muller
%
  From greed comes grief, from greed comes fear; he who is free
  from greed knows neither grief nor fear. 216

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who possesses virtue and intelligence, who is just, speaks the
  truth, and does what is his own business, him the world will hold
  dear. 217

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He in whom a desire for the Ineffable (Nirvana) has sprung up,
  who is satisfied in his mind, and whose thoughts are not bewildered by
  love, he is called urdhvamsrotas (carried upwards by the stream). 218

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Kinsmen, friends, and lovers salute a man who has been long away,
  and returns safe from afar. 219

  In like manner his good works receive him who has done good, and
  has gone from this world to the other;--as kinsmen receive a friend on
  his return. 220

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome
  all bondage!  No sufferings befall the man who is not attached to name
  and form, and who calls nothing his own. 221

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call
  a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. 222

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good;
  let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth! 223

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked
  for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. 224

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The sages who injure nobody, and who always control their body,
  they will go to the unchangeable place (Nirvana), where, if they have
  gone, they will suffer no more. 225

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Those who are ever watchful, who study day and night, and who
  strive after Nirvana, their passions will come to an end. 226

		-- F Max Muller
%
  This is an old saying, O Atula, this is not only of to-day: `They
  blame him who sits silent,  they blame him who speaks much, they also
  blame him who says little; there is no one on earth who is not
  blamed.' 227

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a man who
  is always blamed, or a man who is always praised. 228

		-- F Max Muller
%
  But he whom those who discriminate praise continually day
  after day, as without blemish, wise, rich in knowledge and virtue, who
  would dare to blame him, like a coin made of gold from the Gambu
  river?  Even the gods praise him, he is praised even by Brahman. 229, 230

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body!  Leave the sins of
  the body, and with thy body practise virtue! 231

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Beware of the anger of the tongue, and control thy tongue!  Leave
  the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue! 232

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Beware of the anger of the mind, and control thy mind! Leave the
  sins of the mind, and practise virtue with thy mind! 233

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the
  wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled. 234

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Thou art now like a sear leaf, the messengers of death (Yama)
  have come near to thee; thou standest at the door of thy departure,
  and thou hast no provision for thy journey. 235

  Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!  When thy impurities
  are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt enter into the
  heavenly world of the elect (Ariya). 236

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Thy life has come to an end, thou art come near to death (Yama),
  there is no resting-place for thee on the road, and thou hast no
  provision for thy journey. 237

  Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise!  When thy impurities
  are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter
  again into birth and decay. 238

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith
  blows off the impurities of silver one by one, little by little, and
  from time to time. 239

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As the impurity which springs from the iron, when it springs from
  it, destroys it; thus do a transgressor's own works lead him to the
  evil path. 240

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The taint of prayers is non-repetition; the taint of houses, non-
  repair; the taint of the body is sloth; the taint of a watchman,
  thoughtlessness. 241

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Bad conduct is the taint of woman, greediness the taint of a
  benefactor; tainted are all evil ways in this world and in the next. 242

		-- F Max Muller
%
  But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the
  greatest taint.  O mendicants! throw off that taint, and become
  taintless! 243

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero,
  a mischief-maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow. 244

  But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for
  what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent. 245

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who destroys life, who speaks untruth, who in this world takes
  what is not given him, who goes to another man's wife; 246

  And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors,
  he, even in this world, digs up his own root. 247

  O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take
  care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long
  time! 248

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The world gives according to their faith or according to their
  pleasure: if a man frets about the food and the drink given to others,
  he will find no rest either by day or by night. 249

  He in whom that feeling is destroyed, and taken out with the very
  root, finds rest by day and by night. 250

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred,
  there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. 251

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is
  difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like
  chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from
  the gambler. 252

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man looks after the faults of others, and is always inclined
  to be offended, his own passions will grow, and he is far from the
  destruction of passions. 253

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There is no path through the air, a man is not a Samana by
  outward acts.  The world delights in vanity, the Tathagatas (the
  Buddhas) are free from vanity. 254

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There is no path through the air, a man is not a Samana by
  outward acts. No creatures are eternal; but the awakened (Buddha) are
  never shaken. 255

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not just if he carries a matter by violence; no, he
  who distinguishes both right and wrong, who is learned and leads
  others, not by violence, but by law and equity, and who is guarded by
  the law and intelligent, he is called just. 256, 257

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient,
  free from hatred and fear, he is called learned. 258

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not a supporter of the law because he talks much; even
  if a man has learnt little, but sees the law bodily, he is a supporter
  of the law, a man who never neglects the law. 259

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be
  ripe, but he is called `Old-in-vain.' 260

  He in whom there is truth, virtue, love, restraint, moderation,
  he who is free from impurity and is wise, he is called an elder. 261

		-- F Max Muller
%
  An envious greedy, dishonest man does not become respectable by
  means of much talking only, or by the beauty of his complexion. 262

  He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very
  root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. 263

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Not by tonsure does an undisciplined man who speaks falsehood
  become a Samana; can a man be a Samana who is still held captive by
  desire and greediness? 264

  He who always quiets the evil, whether small or large, he is
  called a Samana (a quiet man), because he has quieted all evil. 265

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not a mendicant (Bhikshu) simply because he asks others
  for alms; he who adopts the whole law is a Bhikshu, not he who only
  begs. 266

  He who is above good and evil, who is chaste, who with knowledge
  passes through the world, he indeed is called a Bhikshu. 267

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not a Muni because he observes silence (mona, i.e.
  mauna), if he is foolish and ignorant; but the wise who, taking the
  balance, chooses the good and avoids evil, he is a Muni, and is a Muni
  thereby; he who in this world weighs both sides is called a Muni. 268, 269

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man is not an elect (Ariya) because he injures living
  creatures; because he has pity on all living creatures, therefore is a
  man called Ariya. 270

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Not only by discipline and vows, not only by much learning,
  not by entering into a trance, not by sleeping alone, do I earn the
  happiness of release which no worldling can know. Bhikshu, be not
  confident as long as thou hast not attained the extinction of desires. 271, 272

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The best of ways is the eightfold; the best of truths the four
  words; the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of men he who has
  eyes to see. 273

		-- F Max Muller
%
  This is the way, there is no other that leads to the purifying of
  intelligence.  Go on this way!  Everything else is the deceit of Mara
  (the tempter). 274

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If you go on this way, you will make an end of pain!  The way was
  preached by me, when I had understood the removal of the thorns (in
  the flesh). 275

		-- F Max Muller
%
  You yourself must make an effort.  The Tathagatas (Buddhas) are
  only preachers.  The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the
  bondage of Mara. 276

		-- F Max Muller
%
  `All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes
  passive in pain; this is the way to purity. 277

		-- F Max Muller
%
  `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. 278

		-- F Max Muller
%
  `All forms are unreal,' he who knows and sees this becomes
  passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity. 279

		-- F Max Muller
%
  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. 280

		-- F Max Muller
%
  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. 281

		-- F Max Muller
%
  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. 282

		-- F Max Muller
%
  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! 283

		-- F Max Muller
%
  So long as the love of man towards women, even the smallest, is
  not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage, as the calf that drinks
  milk is to its mother. 284

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand!
  Cherish the road of peace. Nirvana has been shown by Sugata (Buddha). 285

		-- F Max Muller
%
  `Here I shall dwell in the rain, here in winter and summer,' thus
  the fool meditates, and does not think of his death. 286

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children
  and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping
  village. 287

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Sons are no help, nor a father, nor relations; there is no help
  from kinsfolk for one whom death has seized. 288

  A wise and good man who knows the meaning of this, should quickly
  clear the way that leads to Nirvana. 289

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a
  wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great. 290

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for
  himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from
  hatred. 291

		-- F Max Muller
%
  What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is
  done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing. 292

  But they whose whole watchfulness is always directed to their
  body, who do not follow what ought not to be done, and who steadfastly
  do what ought to be done, the desires of such watchful and wise people
  will come to an end. 293

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and
  mother, and two valiant kings, though he has destroyed a kingdom with
  all its subjects. 294

  A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and
  mother, and two holy kings, and an eminent man besides. 295

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The disciples of Gotama (Buddha) are always well awake, and their
  thoughts day and night are always set on Buddha. 296

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts
  day and night are always set on the law. 297

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts
  day and night are always set on the church. 298

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts
  day and night are always set on their body. 299

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day
  and night always delights in compassion. 300

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day
  and night always delights in meditation. 301

		-- F Max Muller
%
  It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to
  enjoy the world; hard is the monastery, painful are the houses;
  painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common) and
  the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain.  Therefore let no man be
  an itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain. 302

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man
  chooses, there he is respected. 303

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people
  are not seen, like arrows shot by night. 304

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He alone who, without ceasing, practises the duty of sitting
  alone and sleeping alone, he, subduing himself, will rejoice in the
  destruction of all desires alone, as if living in a forest. 305

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who says what is not, goes to hell; he also who, having done a
  thing, says I have not done it. After death both are equal, they are
  men with evil deeds in the next world. 306

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are
  ill-conditioned and unrestrained; such evil-doers by their evil deeds
  go to hell. 307

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Better it would be to swallow a heated iron ball, like flaring
  fire, than that a bad unrestrained fellow should live on the charity
  of the land. 308

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Four things does a wreckless man gain who covets his neighbour's
  wife,--a bad reputation, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment,
  and lastly, hell. 309

		-- F Max Muller
%
  There is bad reputation, and the evil way (to hell), there is the
  short pleasure of the frightened in the arms of the frightened, and
  the king imposes heavy punishment; therefore let no man think of his
  neighbour's wife. 310

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised
  asceticism leads to hell. 311

		-- F Max Muller
%
  An act carelessly performed, a broken vow, and hesitating
  obedience to discipline, all this brings no great reward. 312

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it
  vigorously!  A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions
  more widely. 313

		-- F Max Muller
%
  An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it
  afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does
  not repent. 314

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Like a well-guarded frontier fort, with defences within and
  without, so let a man guard himself.  Not a moment should escape, for
  they who allow the right moment to pass, suffer pain when they are in
  hell. 315

		-- F Max Muller
%
  They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and
  are not ashamed of what they ought to be ashamed of, such men,
  embracing false doctrines enter the evil path. 316

		-- F Max Muller
%
  They who fear when they ought not to fear, and fear not when they
  ought to fear, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil
  path. 317

		-- F Max Muller
%
  They who forbid when there is nothing to be forbidden, and forbid
  not when there is something to be forbidden, such men, embracing false
  doctrines, enter the evil path. 318

  They who know what is forbidden as forbidden, and what is not
  forbidden as not forbidden, such men, embracing the true doctrine,
  enter the good path. 319

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures
  the arrow sent from the bow: for the world is ill-natured. 320

		-- F Max Muller
%
  They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamed
  elephant; the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures
  abuse. 321

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Mules are good, if tamed, and noble Sindhu horses, and elephants
  with large tusks; but he who tames himself is better still. 322

		-- F Max Muller
%
  For with these animals does no man reach the untrodden country
  (Nirvana), where a tamed man goes on a tamed animal, viz. on his own
  well-tamed self. 323

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The elephant called Dhanapalaka, his temples running with sap,
  and difficult to hold, does not eat a morsel when bound; the elephant
  longs for the elephant grove. 324

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man becomes fat and a great eater, if he is sleepy and rolls
  himself about, that fool, like a hog fed on wash, is born again and
  again. 325

		-- F Max Muller
%
  This mind of mine went formerly wandering about as it liked, as
  it listed, as it pleased; but I shall now hold it in thoroughly, as
  the rider who holds the hook holds in the furious elephant. 326

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Be not thoughtless, watch your thoughts!  Draw yourself out of
  the evil way, like an elephant sunk in mud. 327

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise,
  and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers,
  happy, but considerate. 328

  If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise,
  and lives soberly, let him walk alone, like a king who has left his
  conquered country behind,--like an elephant in the forest. 329

		-- F Max Muller
%
  It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a
  fool; let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes,
  like an elephant in the forest. 330

  If an occasion arises, friends are pleasant; enjoyment is
  pleasant, whatever be the cause; a good work is pleasant in the hour
  of death; the giving up of all grief is pleasant. 331

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Pleasant in the world is the state of a mother, pleasant the
  state of a father, pleasant the state of a Samana, pleasant the state
  of a Brahmana. 332

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Pleasant is virtue lasting to old age, pleasant is a faith firmly
  rooted; pleasant is attainment of intelligence, pleasant is avoiding
  of sins. 333

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The thirst of a thoughtless man grows like a creeper; he runs
  from life to life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest. 334

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in this
  world, his sufferings increase like the abounding Birana grass. 335

  He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered in
  this world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a
  lotus leaf. 336

		-- F Max Muller
%
  This salutary word I tell you, `Do ye, as many as are here
  assembled, dig up the root of thirst, as he who wants the sweet-
  scented Usira root must dig up the Birana grass, that Mara (the
  tempter) may not crush you again and again, as the stream crushes the
  reeds.' 337

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as
  its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst
  are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again. 338

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He whose thirst running towards pleasure is exceeding strong in
  the thirty-six channels, the waves will carry away that misguided man,
  viz. his desires which are set on passion. 339

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The channels run everywhere, the creeper (of passion) stands
  sprouting; if you see the creeper springing up, cut its root by means
  of knowledge. 340

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A creature's pleasures are extravagant and luxurious; sunk in
  lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and
  decay. 341

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; held in
  fetters and bonds, they undergo pain for a long time, again and again. 342

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let
  therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after
  passionlessness for himself. 343

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who having got rid of the forest (of lust) (i.e. after having
  reached Nirvana) gives himself over to forest-life (i.e. to lust), and
  who, when removed from the forest (i.e. from lust), runs to the forest
  (i.e. to lust), look at that man! though free, he runs into bondage. 344

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Wise people do not call that a strong fetter which is made of
  iron, wood, or hemp; far stronger is the care for precious stones and
  rings, for sons and a wife. 345

  That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but
  is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the
  world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind. 346

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Those who are slaves to passions, run down with the stream (of
  desires), as a spider runs down the web which he has made himself;
  when they have cut this, at last, wise people leave the world free
  from cares, leaving all affection behind. 347

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Give up what is before, give up what is behind, give up what is
  in the middle, when thou goest to the other shore of existence; if thy
  mind is altogether free, thou wilt not again enter into birth and
  decay. 348

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If a man is tossed about by doubts, full of strong passions, and
  yearning only for what is delightful, his thirst will grow more and
  more, and he will indeed make his fetters strong. 349

  If a man delights in quieting doubts, and, always reflecting,
  dwells on what is not delightful (the impurity of the body, &c.), he
  certainly will remove, nay, he will cut the fetter of Mara. 350

  He who has reached the consummation, who does not tremble, who is
  without thirst and without sin, he has broken all the thorns of life:
  this will be his last body. 351

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who is without thirst and without affection, who understands
  the words and their interpretation, who knows the order of letters
  (those which are before and which are after), he has received his last
  body, he is called the great sage, the great man. 352

		-- F Max Muller
%
  `I have conquered all, I know all, in all conditions of life I am
  free from taint; I have left all, and through the destruction of
  thirst I am free; having learnt myself, whom shall I teach?' 353

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The gift of the law exceeds all gifts; the sweetness of the law
  exceeds all sweetness; the delight in the law exceeds all delights;
  the extinction of thirst overcomes all pain. 354

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other
  shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if
  he were his own enemy. 355

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by passion:
  therefore a gift bestowed on the passionless brings great reward. 356

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by hatred:
  therefore a gift bestowed on those who do not hate brings great
  reward. 357

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by vanity:
  therefore a gift bestowed on those who are free from vanity brings
  great reward. 358

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by lust:
  therefore a gift bestowed on those who are free from lust brings great
  reward. 359

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Restraint in the eye is good, good is restraint in the ear, in
  the nose restraint is good, good is restraint in the tongue. 360

		-- F Max Muller
%
  In the body restraint is good, good is restraint in speech, in
  thought restraint is good, good is restraint in all things.  A
  Bhikshu, restrained in all things, is freed from all pain. 361

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who controls his hand, he who controls his feet, he who
  controls his speech, he who is well controlled, he who delights
  inwardly, who is collected, who is solitary and content, him they call
  Bhikshu. 362

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The Bhikshu who controls his mouth, who speaks wisely and calmly,
  who teaches the meaning and the law, his word is sweet. 363

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who dwells in the law, delights in the law, meditates on the
  law, follows the law, that Bhikshu will never fall away from the true
  law. 364

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Let him not despise what he has received, nor ever envy others: a
  mendicant who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. 365

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A Bhikshu who, though he receives little, does not despise what
  he has received, even the gods will praise him, if his life is pure,
  and if he is not slothful. 366

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who never identifies himself with name and form, and does not
  grieve over what is no more, he indeed is called a Bhikshu. 367

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The Bhikshu who acts with kindness, who is calm in the doctrine
  of Buddha, will reach the quiet place (Nirvana), cessation of natural
  desires, and happiness. 368

		-- F Max Muller
%
  O Bhikshu, empty this boat! if emptied, it will go quickly;
  having cut off passion and hatred thou wilt go to Nirvana. 369

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Cut off the five (senses), leave the five, rise above the five.
  A Bhikshu, who has escaped from the five fetters, he is called
  Oghatinna, `saved from the flood.' 370

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Meditate, O Bhikshu, and be not heedless!  Do not direct thy
  thought to what gives pleasure that thou mayest not for thy
  heedlessness have to swallow the iron ball (in hell), and that thou
  mayest not cry out when burning, `This is pain.' 371

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation
  there is no knowledge: he who has knowledge and meditation is near
  unto Nirvana. 372

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A Bhikshu who has entered his empty house, and whose mind is
  tranquil, feels a more than human delight when he sees the law
  clearly. 373

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As soon as he has considered the origin and destruction of the
  elements (khandha) of the body, he finds happiness and joy which
  belong to those who know the immortal (Nirvana). 374

		-- F Max Muller
%
  And this is the beginning here for a wise Bhikshu: watchfulness
  over the senses, contentedness, restraint under the law; keep noble
  friends whose life is pure, and who are not slothful. 375

  Let him live in charity, let him be perfect in his duties; then
  in the fulness of delight he will make an end of suffering. 376

		-- F Max Muller
%
  As the Vassika plant sheds its withered flowers, men should shed
  passion and hatred, O ye Bhikshus! 377

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The Bhikshu whose body and tongue and mind are quieted, who is
  collected, and has rejected the baits of the world, he is called
  quiet. 378

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Rouse thyself by thyself, examine thyself by thyself, thus self-
  protected and attentive wilt thou live happily, O Bhikshu! 379

		-- F Max Muller
%
  For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self;
  therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse. 380

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The Bhikshu, full of delight, who is calm in the doctrine of
  Buddha will reach the quiet place (Nirvana), cessation of natural
  desires, and happiness. 381

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who, even as a young Bhikshu, applies himself to the doctrine
  of Buddha, brightens up this world, like the moon when free from
  clouds. 382

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Stop the stream valiantly, drive away the desires, O Brahmana!
  When you have understood the destruction of all that was made, you
  will understand that which was not made. 383

		-- F Max Muller
%
  If the Brahmana has reached the other shore in both laws (in
  restraint and contemplation), all bonds vanish from him who has
  obtained knowledge. 384

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He for whom there is neither this nor that shore, nor both, him,
  the fearless and unshackled, I call indeed a Brahmana. 385

		-- F Max Muller
%
  He who is thoughtful, blameless, settled, dutiful, without
  passions, and who has attained the highest end, him I call indeed a
  Brahmana. 386

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The sun is bright by day, the moon shines by night, the warrior
  is bright in his armour, the Brahmana is bright in his meditation; but
  Buddha, the Awakened, is bright with splendour day and night. 387

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Because a man is rid of evil, therefore he is called Brahmana;
  because he walks quietly, therefore he is called Samana; because he
  has sent away his own impurities, therefore he is called Pravragita
  (Pabbagita, a pilgrim). 388

		-- F Max Muller
%
  No one should attack a Brahmana, but no Brahmana (if attacked)
  should let himself fly at his aggressor!  Woe to him who strikes a
  Brahmana, more woe to him who flies at his aggressor! 389

		-- F Max Muller
%
  It advantages a Brahmana not a little if he holds his mind back
  from the pleasures of life; when all wish to injure has vanished, pain
  will cease. 390

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who does not offend by body, word,
  or thought, and is controlled on these three points. 391

		-- F Max Muller
%
  After a man has once understood the law as taught by the Well-
  awakened (Buddha), let him worship it carefully, as the Brahmana
  worships the sacrificial fire. 392

		-- F Max Muller
%
  A man does not become a Brahmana by his platted hair, by his
  family, or by birth; in whom there is truth and righteousness, he is
  blessed, he is a Brahmana. 393

		-- F Max Muller
%
  What is the use of platted hair, O fool! what of the raiment of
  goat-skins?  Within thee there is ravening, but the outside thou
  makest clean. 394

		-- F Max Muller
%
  The man who wears dirty raiments, who is emaciated and covered
  with veins, who lives alone in the forest, and meditates, him I call
  indeed a Brahmana. 395

		-- F Max Muller
%
  I do not call a man a Brahmana because of his origin or of his
  mother.  He is indeed arrogant, and he is wealthy: but the poor, who
  is free from all attachments, him I call indeed a Brahmana. 396

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has cut all fetters, who never
  trembles, is independent and unshackled. 397

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has cut the strap and the thong,
  the chain with all that pertains to it, who has burst the bar, and is
  awakened. 398

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, though he has committed no
  offence, endures reproach, bonds, and stripes, who has endurance for
  his force, and strength for his army. 399

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is free from anger, dutiful,
  virtuous, without appetite, who is subdued, and has received his last
  body. 400

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who does not cling to pleasures,
  like water on a lotus leaf, like a mustard seed on the point of a
  needle. 401

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, even here, knows the end of his
  suffering, has put down his burden, and is unshackled. 402

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana whose knowledge is deep, who
  possesses wisdom, who knows the right way and the wrong, and has
  attained the highest end. 403

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who keeps aloof both from laymen and
  from mendicants, who frequents no houses, and has but few desires. 404

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who finds no fault with other
  beings, whether feeble or strong, and does not kill nor cause
  slaughter. 405

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is tolerant with the intolerant,
  mild with fault-finders, and free from passion among the passionate. 406

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana from whom anger and hatred, pride
  and envy have dropt like a mustard seed from the point of a needle. 407

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who utters true speech, instructive
  and free from harshness, so that he offend no one. 408

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who takes nothing in the world that
  is not given him, be it long or short, small or large, good or bad. 409

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who fosters no desires for this
  world or for the next, has no inclinations, and is unshackled. 410

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has no interests, and when he
  has understood (the truth), does not say How, how? and who has reached
  the depth of the Immortal. 411

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who in this world is above good and
  evil, above the bondage of both, free from grief from sin, and from
  impurity. 412

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who is bright like the moon, pure,
  serene, undisturbed, and in whom all gaiety is extinct. 413

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has traversed this miry road,
  the impassable world and its vanity, who has gone through, and reached
  the other shore, is thoughtful, guileless, free from doubts, free from
  attachment, and content. 414

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who in this world, leaving all
  desires, travels about without a home, and in whom all concupiscence
  is extinct. 415

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, leaving all longings, travels
  about without a home, and in whom all covetousness is extinct. 416

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who, after leaving all bondage to
  men, has risen above all bondage to the gods, and is free from all and
  every bondage. 417

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has left what gives pleasure and
  what gives pain, who is cold, and free from all germs (of renewed
  life), the hero who has conquered all the worlds. 418

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who knows the destruction and the
  return of beings everywhere, who is free from bondage, welfaring
  (Sugata), and awakened (Buddha). 419

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana whose path the gods do not know, nor
  spirits (Gandharvas), nor men, whose passions are extinct, and who is
  an Arhat (venerable). 420

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who calls nothing his own, whether
  it be before, behind, or between, who is poor, and free from the love
  of the world. 421

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana, the manly, the noble, the hero, the
  great sage, the conqueror, the impassible, the accomplished, the
  awakened. 422

		-- F Max Muller
%
  Him I call indeed a Brahmana who knows his former abodes, who
  sees heaven and hell, has reached the end of births, is perfect in
  knowledge, a sage, and whose perfections are all perfect. 423

		-- F Max Muller
