23.
The Chapter on the Elephant
320.
I shall endure abuse, for many people are immoral.
321.
The tamed is foremost among human beings, whoever endures harsh speech.
322.
And elephants, great serpents; one self-restrained is better than that.
323.
As with oneself well tamed, the tamed one goes by the tamed.
324.
Bound, he does not consume a morsel, the elephant remembers the elephant forest.
325.
Like a great hog fed on fodder, the fool enters the womb again and again.
326.
That today I shall restrain wisely, like a goad-holder a furious elephant.
327.
Lift yourselves out of difficulty, as an elephant sunk in mud.
328.
Having overcome all dangers, one should wander with him, glad and mindful.
329.
Like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, one should wander alone, like an elephant in the forest.
330.
One should wander alone and not do evil deeds, living at ease, like an elephant in the forest.
331.
Merit is pleasant at the end of life; the abandoning of all suffering is pleasant.
332.
Pleasant is asceticism in the world, and also commitment to holy life is pleasant.
333.
Pleasant is the attainment of wisdom, the non-performance of evil is pleasant.
The Chapter on the Elephant is concluded as twenty-third.