Dhammapada, Dhamma Verses (KN 2)
Pāli verses with English translation in this collection of 423 Dhamma verses, along with a discussion of their meaning and their collection.
Pāli verses with English translation in this collection of 423 Dhamma verses, along with a discussion of their meaning and their collection.
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19: The Chapter about One who stands by <strong>Dhamma</strong> – 105<br />
phusāmi nekkhammasukhaṁ, aputhujjanasevitaṁ;<br />
do I attain the happiness of renunciation, 1 not practised by worldly people;<br />
bhikkhu vissāsa’ māpādi 2 appatto āsavakkhayaṁ. [272]<br />
let a monastic not be confident (as long as) the destruction of the pollutants is unattained. 3<br />
<strong>Dhamma</strong>ṭṭhavaggo Ekūnavīsatimo<br />
The Chapter about the one who stands by <strong>Dhamma</strong>, the Nineteenth<br />
Related Verse from the <strong><strong>Dhamma</strong>pada</strong><br />
Sīladassanasampannaṁ, dhammaṭṭhaṁ saccavedinaṁ,<br />
Endowed with virtue and insight, principled, knowing the truths,<br />
attano kamma’ kubbānaṁ, taṁ jano kurute piyaṁ. [217]<br />
doing the deeds that are his own, that one the people love.<br />
1<br />
Defined by the commentary as anāgāmisukhaṁ; the happiness of non-returning.<br />
2 This parses as vissāsaṁ mā āpādi.<br />
3<br />
There is an uncertainty of person in this verse (I and then he), it might have been better written<br />
with 3 rd person phusatī (with long -ī for the metre): does he attain...