Selected Verses from the Dhammapada




From the chapter The Saint...translated by P. Lal... page 71

No suffering for him who is free from sorrow free from the fetters of life free in everything he does. He has reached the end of his road.

He has no fixed habitation; like a swan flown from its lake, he is serious he has left his home.

Like a bird invisibly flying in the sky, he lives without possessions, knowledge his food, freedom his world, while others wonder.

Like a bird flying invisibly in the sky while others wonder, he lives, the saint without passions, indifferent to food, aware of the meaning of freedom.

Even the gods envy him, this charioteer saint who tames the horses of his senses, yet is not proud.


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