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The Discourse on Sensual Pleasure
773.
For one desiring sensual pleasure, if that succeeds for him;
Surely he is joyful in mind, a mortal having obtained what he wishes.
774.
For one desiring sensual pleasures, for that being in whom desire has arisen;
If those sensual pleasures decline, he is transformed like one pierced by a dart.
775.
Whoever avoids sensual pleasures, like a head from a snake's foot;
He, mindful, overcomes this clinging in the world.
776.
Field, site, unwrought gold, cattle and horses, slaves and servants;
Women, relatives, manifold sensual pleasures, whatever man covets.
777.
The weak defilements overpower him, dangers crushing him;
From that, suffering follows him, like water a broken boat.
778.
Therefore a creature, always mindful, should avoid sensual pleasures;
Having abandoned them, one would cross the flood, like one who has bailed out a boat, gone to the far shore.
The Discourse on Sensual Pleasure is concluded as first.