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08 - The Thousands - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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  Chapter eight, The thousands. Even though a speech be a thousand of words,
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  but made up of senseless words, one word of sense is better,
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  which if a man hears, he becomes quiet. Even though a Gotha poem
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  be a thousand of words, but made up of senseless words, one word
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  of a Gotha is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.
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  Though a man recite a hundred gothers made up of senseless words, one
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  word of the law is better, which if a man hears, he becomes
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  quiet. If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men, and
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  if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors. One's own self
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  conquered is better than all other people. Not even a god, a Gandharva,
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  not Mara with Brahmin, could change into defeat the victory of a man
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  who has vanquished himself and always lives under restraint. If a man for a
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  hundred years sacrifice month after month with a thousand, and if he but for
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  one moment pay homage to a man whose soul is grounded in true knowledge,
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  better is that homage than a sacrifice for a hundred years. If a man
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  for a hundred years, worship, agony, fire in the forest, and
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  if he, but for one moment, pay homage to a man whose soul
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  is grounded in true knowledge. Better is that homage than sacrifice for a hundred
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  years. Whatever a man sacrifice in this world as an offering or as an
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  oblation for a whole year in order to gain merit, the whole of it
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  is not worth a quarter a farthing. Reverence shown to the righteous is better.
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  He who always greets and constantly revers the aged four things will increase to
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  him, namely life, beauty, happiness, power. But he who lives
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  a hundred years vicious and unrestrained, a life of one day is better.
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  If a man is virtuous and reflecting, and he who lives a hundred years
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  ignorant and unrestrained. A life of one day is better. If a man
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  is wise and reflecting, and he who lives a hundred years idle and weak.
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  A life of one day is better. If a man has attained firm
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  strength, and he who lives a hundred years not seeing beginning and end,
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  A life of one day is better. If a man sees beginning and end,
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  and he who lives a hundred years not seeing the immortal place. A
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  life of one day is better if a man sees the immortal place, and
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  he who lives a hundred years not seeing the highest law, a life of
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  one day is better if a man sees the highest law. End of Chapter eight