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Previous Chapter 13. The Book of the Thirteens

14.

The Book of the Fourteens

1.

Verses of the Elder Revata of the Acacia Forest

645.

"When I went forth, from home into homelessness;

I do not know of any thought, ignoble, connected with hate.

646.

'May these living beings be killed, be slaughtered, may they reach suffering';

I do not know of such a thought, in this long interval.

647.

"And I directly know friendliness, limitless, well developed;

Gradually practised, as taught by the Buddha.

648.

"A friend to all, a companion to all, compassionate to all beings;

I develop a mind of friendliness, always delighting in non-ill-will.

649.

"Unshakable, unagitated, I gladden my mind;

I develop the divine abiding, not practised by wretched persons.

650.

"Having attained the state without applied thought, the disciple of the Fully Self-Enlightened One;

Is endowed with noble silence at that very moment.

651.

"Just as a rocky mountain, immovable, firmly established;

So a monk, through the elimination of delusion, does not tremble like a mountain.

652.

"For a person without blemish, always seeking what is pure;

Even a hair-tip of evil appears like a cloud.

653.

"Just as a borderland city, guarded within and without;

So guard yourselves, let not the moment pass you by.

654.

"I do not delight in death, I do not delight in life;

And I await the time, like a hired servant earning his wages.

655.

"I do not delight in death, etc. fully aware, mindful.

656.

"The Teacher has been attended upon by me, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled;

The heavy burden has been laid down, the conduit to existence has been uprooted.

657.

"For whatever purpose I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, the destruction of all mental fetters.

658.

"Strive on with diligence, this is my instruction;

Come, I shall attain final Nibbāna, I am liberated everywhere."

... Khadiravaniya Revata the Elder...

2.

Verses of the Elder Godatta

659.

"Just as a good thoroughbred, yoked to the shaft, bearing the yoke;

Though shaken by an excessive load, does not go beyond the yoke.

660.

"Those who are thus satisfied with wisdom, as the ocean with water;

They do not despise others, this is the noble teaching for living beings.

661.

"Having come under the control of time at the proper time, having gone under the control of existence and non-existence;

Men undergo suffering, they grieve here, young men.

662.

"Elated by pleasant phenomena, and dejected by painful phenomena;

By this dyad the foolish are destroyed, not seeing as it really is.

663.

"Those who in suffering and in happiness, in the middle, have gone beyond the seamstress of death;

They stand firm like a gate-post, they are neither elated nor depressed.

664.

"Not indeed in material gain nor in loss of gain, not in fame nor in renown;

Not in blame nor in praise, not for them in suffering nor in happiness.

665.

"Everywhere they are not stained, like a water drop on a lotus;

Everywhere happy are the wise, everywhere unconquered.

666.

"And loss by righteousness, and gain that is not righteous;

Righteous loss is better, than if gain is not righteous.

667.

"Fame among those of little wisdom, and disgrace among the wise;

Disgrace among the wise is better, not fame among those of little wisdom.

668.

"Praise by the imprudent, and reproach by the wise;

Reproach by the wise is better, than if there is praise by fools.

669.

"Happiness born of sensual pleasure, and suffering born of seclusion;

The suffering of seclusion is better, than if happiness is born of sensual pleasure.

670.

"Life by what is not the Teaching, and death by the Teaching;

Righteous death is better, than if one should live unrighteously.

671.

"Those who have abandoned sensual pleasure and irritation, with peaceful minds in any kind of existence;

They wander in the world unattached, for them there is nothing dear or not dear.

672.

"Having developed the factors of enlightenment, the faculties and powers;

Having attained the supreme peace, they attain final nibbāna without mental corruptions."

... Godatta the Elder...

The Chapter of Fourteens is concluded.

The summary therein:

Revata and Godatta, two elders of great supernormal power;

In the Book of Fourteens, twenty-eight verses.

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