44 (199). Ah! let us live exceedingly happy, living without greed among men who are greedy, without greed in the midst of the greedy. 45 (198). Ah! let us live exceedingly happy, living without disease among men afflicted by diseases, without disease in midst of disease. 46. Ah! let us live exceedingly happy, living without enmity amidst men who are inimical, without enmity mong the inimical. 47. Ah! let us live exceedingly happy, living without cruel thoughts amidst men who have cruel thoughts, without cruelty among the cruel. 48. Ah! let us live exceedingly happy, living without hatred amidst men who hate, without hatred among haters. 49. Ah! let us live exceedingly happy; though Mithilâ burns, nothing of mine does burn, for I have nothing.1 50 (200). Ah! let us live exceedingly happy; though there be nothing to call our own, we shall feed on happiness like the shining gods.2 1 See Mahabharata, xii. 9917, and Max Müller's Dhammapada, p. 53, note. "There once lived a king of Mithila who had become a Rischi, and had cast off desires and passions. Having perceived Mithilâ in flames, he spoke a gâtha that had been spoken by a (former) Buddha. P. 2 Od-gsal -ábhásvara. See Burnouf, Intr., p. 611; Rgya-tcher rolpa, p. 143, 340, &c.; and Brahmajâla Sûtra, Mdo xxx. f. 115a, where their existence is described. 51. Ah! let us live exceedingly happy, relying on nothing perishable; and though there be nothing to call our own, we shall feed on happiness. 52. When one meets with the consequences of attachment (upadana) one must suffer; when there is no attachment there is nothing to meet which can cause suffering; he who has finished with both the one and the other (attachment and its consequences) and is happy, will not have to endure affliction in either forest or hamlet.1 53. In this world the holy man is neither elated or depressed by joy or sorrow; the steadfast are not made vain by the objects of desire; 2 the holy man forsakes everything. Chapter on Happiness, the Thirtieth. 1 This verse is rather difficult. I have followed the suggestions of the Commentary, but have been obliged Book IV. XXXI. THE MIND. I (35). It is good to control the mind, which is difficult to hold, unstable, and which goes where it pleases: with a controlled mind one acquires happiness. 2 (34). To escape from the abode of Mâra one is filled with trembling, like a fish taken from its watery abode and thrown on dry land. 3. Like one deprived of the light of the sun, one's mind wanders about; they who are truly wise hold it in, as one does an elephant with an iron hook. It is not "do that which is of no profit to oneself, which is not worth a thought, which is of no import; but continually to control your mind"- that is what I say. 5 (326). Formerly this mind (of mine) ran about as it wanted, |