The Dhammapada Vol 07 ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 11 Dec 1979 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | DHAM0701 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- You are as the yellow leaf.
- The messengers of death are at hand.
- You are to travel far away.
- What will you take with you?
- You are the lamp
- To lighten the way.
- Then hurry, hurry.
- When your light shines
- Without impurity or desire
- You will come into the boundless country.
- Your life is falling away.
- Death is at hand.
- Where will you rest on the way?
- What have you taken with you?
- You are the lamp
- To lighten the way.
- Then hurry, hurry.
- When your light shines purely
- You will not be born
- And you will not die.
- As a silversmith sifts dust from silver,
- Remove your own impurities
- Little by little.
- Or as iron is corroded by rust
- Your own mischief will consume you.
- Neglected, the sacred verses rust.
- For beauty rusts without use
- And unrepaired the house falls into ruin,
- And the watch, without vigilance, fails.
- In this world and the next
- There is impurity and impurity:
- When a woman lacks dignity,
- When a man lacks generosity.
- But the greatest impurity is ignorance.
- Free yourself from it.
- Be pure.
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