Selected Verses from the Dhammapada
Translated by P. Lal...Chapter: The Path...page 135




"This I choose for my winter home;
this for the monsoon, this for the summer."
-The words of a fool.
He fails to see his final destination.
Like floods that come and sweep away a sleeping village,
death descends on the drowsy mind greedy for children and cattle.

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