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If by renouncing a small pleasure one derives great bliss, the wise man relinquishes that smaller pleasure in view of the greater one.
- If he sees that by sacrificing a slight happiness he can obtain a greater happiness, then a wise man should sacrifice the lesser happiness with a view to the greater happiness. (Ⅰ) - mattaa-sukha-parichchaagaa passe che vipulaM sukhaM
chaje mattaa-sukhaM dhiiro sampassaM vipulaM sukhaM. (Ⅴ)
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He who desires happiness for himself by inflicting injury on others, is not freed from hatred, being entangled himself in the bonds of hatred.
- He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting suffering on others, does not reach freedom from hatred, caught as he is in the toils of hatred. (Ⅰ) - para-dukkh'uupadhaanena attano sukham ichchhati
vera-saMsagga-saMsaTTho veraa so na parimuchchati. (Ⅴ)
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If what ought to be done is neglected, and what ought not to be done is done, then the sensuous influxes of the arrogant and the heedless increase.
- What IS their affair is put aside. What is NOT their affair gets done. The inflow of thoughts in such brazen and careless people just goes on increasing. (Ⅰ) - yaM hi kichchaM apaviddhaM akichchaM pana kayirati
unnaLaanaM pamattaanaM tesaM vaDDhanti aasavaa. (Ⅴ)
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Those who are constantly watchful as to the nature of the body, who abstain from doing what ought not to be done, who strive to perform the deeds that ought to be done, who are mindful and self-restrained -- in such men the sensuous influxes are extinguished.
- They whose recollection of the body is always well established, however, have nothing to do with what is not their affair, always persevering in what IS their affair. The inflow of thoughts in such recollected and aware people simply dies away. (Ⅰ) - yesaM cha susamaaraddhaa nichchaM kaaya-gataa sati
akichchaM te na sevanti kichche saatachcha-kaarino
sataanaM sampajaanaanaM atthaM gachchhanti aasavaa. (Ⅴ)
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Having slain mother (craving), father (egotism), and the two kings of the Kshatriya caste (the two false doctrines of eternalism and annihilation of the soul), and having destroyed the kingdom with its inhabitants (the twelve bases of sense perception and objects of attachment), the true Brahman goes his way unperturbed.
- After killing mother (desire), father ("I am" conceit) and two warrior kings, and destroying the kingdom along with its subjects, the brahmin goes on his way unperturbed. (Ⅰ) - maataraM pitaraM hantvaa raajaano dve cha khattiye
raTThaM s'aanucharaM hantvaa aniigho yaati braahmaNo. (Ⅴ)
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Having slain mother, father and two kings of the Brahman caste, and having destroyed as the fifth, the tiger (the perilous path of the five hindrances, namely, lust, ill will, torpor, restlessness and doubt), the true Brahman goes his way unperturbed.
- After killing mother, father and two priestly kings, and killed a tiger as his fifth victim, the brahmin goes on his way unperturbed. (Ⅰ) - maataraM pitaraM hantvaa raajaano dve cha sotthiye
veyaggha-pañchamaM hantvaa aniigho yaati braahmaNo. (Ⅴ)
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296
The disciples of Gotama (Gautama) always awake well-enlightened. Their consciousness is constantly centered, day and night, on the Buddha.
- A good awakening have ever Gotama's disciples, whose recollection is always established, day and night on the Buddha. (Ⅰ) - su-ppabuddhaM pabujjhanti sadaa gotama-saavakaa
yesaM divaa cha ratto cha nichchaM buddha-gataa sati. (Ⅴ)
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The disciples of Gotama always awake well-enlightened. Their consciousness is constantly centered, day and night, on the Dhamma.
- A good awakening have ever Gotama's disciples, whose recollection is always established, day and night on the Teaching. (Ⅰ) - su-ppabuddhaM pabujjhanti sadaa gotama-saavakaa
yesaM divaa cha ratto cha nichchaM dhamma-gataa sati. (Ⅴ)
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298
The disciples of Gotama always awake well-enlightened. Their consciousness is constantly centered, day and night, on the Order (sangha).
- A good awakening have ever Gotama's disciples, whose recollection is always established, day and night on the Order. (Ⅰ) - su-ppabuddhaM pabujjhanti sadaa gotama-saavakaa
yesaM divaa cha ratto cha nichchaM sangha-gataa sati. (Ⅴ)
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299
The disciples of Gotama always awake well-enlightened. Their consciousness is constantly centered, day and night, upon (the transitory nature of) the body.
- A good awakening have ever Gotama's disciples, whose recollection is always established, day and night on the body. (Ⅰ) - su-ppabuddhaM pabujjhanti sadaa gotama-saavakaa
yesaM divaa cha ratto cha nichchaM kaaya-gataa sati. (Ⅴ)
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300
The disciples of Gotama always awake well-enlightened. Their consciousness, by day and night, delights in the virtue of nonviolence (ahimsa).
- A good awakening have ever Gotama's disciples, whose minds are always rejoicing in non violence. (Ⅰ) - su-ppabuddhaM pabujjhanti sadaa gotama-saavakaa
yesaM divaa cha ratto cha ahiMsaaya rato mano. (Ⅴ)
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The disciples of Gotama always awake well-enlightened. Their consciousness, by day and night, delights in contemplation.
- A good awakening have ever Gotama's disciples, whose minds are always rejoicing in the practice of meditation. (Ⅰ) - su-ppabuddhaM pabujjhanti sadaa gotama-saavakaa
yesaM divaa cha ratto cha bhaavanaaya rato mano. (Ⅴ)
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302
Renunciation of the worldly life is difficult; difficult is it to be happy in the monastic life; equally difficult and painful is it to lead a householder's life. Association with the unsympathetic is also painful. Woe befalls the wayfarer (who enters the cycle of births and deaths). Therefore be not a traveler (in samsara); fall not a victim of sorrow!
- It is hard to take up a life of renunciation, and difficult to find satisfaction in it, but it is also difficult to live in bad households, and painful to live with people unlike oneself, when one is forever tangled in suffering and restless. Therefore don't always be restless, and don't let yourself be tangled in suffering. (Ⅰ) - du-ppabbajjaM dur-abhiramaM dur-aavaasaa gharaa dukhaa
dukkho'samaana-saMvaaso dukkh'aanupatit'addhaguu
tasmaa na ch'addhaguu siyaa na cha dukkh'aanupatito siyaa. (Ⅴ)
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303
He who is endowed with devotion and virtue and is blessed with fame and wealth, is revered wherever he goes.
- When a man has faith, is endowed with virtue, and possessed of fame and wealth, wherever he lives he will be honoured. (Ⅰ) - saddho siilena sampanno yaso-bhoga-samappito
yaM yaM padesaM bhajati tattha tatth'eva puujito. (Ⅴ)
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304
Good men shine from afar like the snowy peaks of the Himalayas. But the wicked, like arrows shot in the night, are not seen.
- The good are conspicuous a long way off, like a Himalayan peak, while the bad are just not noticed, like arrows shot into the dark. (Ⅰ) - duure santo pakaasenti himavanto va pabbato
asant'ettha na dissanti rattiM khittaa yathaa saraa. (Ⅴ)
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Sitting alone, sleeping alone, living alone, and being diligent, subduing the self by means of the Self, let a man find delight in the ending of the forest (of desires).
- Living alone, sleeping alone, travelling alone, and resolute, alone and self disciplined, should take pleasure in living in the forest. (Ⅰ) - ek'aasanaM eka-seyyaM eko charam atandito
eko damayam attaanaM van'ante ramito siyaa. (Ⅴ)
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