10.
The Chapter on Violence
129.
Having made oneself the comparison, one should neither strike nor cause to strike.
130.
Having made oneself the comparison, one should neither strike nor cause to strike.
131.
Seeking happiness for oneself, after death he does not obtain happiness.
132.
Seeking happiness for oneself, after death he obtains happiness.
133.
For vehement talk is painful, retribution would touch you.
134.
You have attained Nibbāna, no impetuosity is found in you.
135.
Thus ageing and death drive away the life of living beings.
136.
The imprudent one, by his own actions, is tormented as if burnt by fire.
137.
He quickly undergoes one of ten states.
138.
Or even a grave illness, and derangement of the mind one may reach.
139.
And utter elimination of relatives, and the perishable nature of possessions.
140.
Upon the collapse of the body, the unwise one is reborn in hell.
141.
Nor dust and dirt, nor striving in the squatting posture, can purify a mortal who has not overcome uncertainty.
142.
Having laid aside the rod towards all beings, he is a brahmin, he is an ascetic, he is a monk.
143.
Who awakens from sleep, like a good horse to the whip?
144.
With faith and morality and energy, with concentration and judgment of the teaching;
Accomplished in true knowledge and conduct, mindful, you will abandon this suffering which is not small.
145.
Carpenters straighten wood, the virtuous tame themselves.
The Chapter on the Rod is concluded as tenth.