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08 - The Thousands - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight, The thousands. Even though a speech be a
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  Speaker 1: thousand of words, but made up of senseless words, one
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  Speaker 1: word of sense is better, which if a man hears,
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  Speaker 1: he becomes quiet. Even though a Gotha poem be a
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  Speaker 1: thousand of words, but made up of senseless words, one
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  Speaker 1: word of a Gotha is better, which if a man hears,
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  Speaker 1: he becomes quiet. Though a man recite a hundred gothers
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  Speaker 1: made up of senseless words, one word of the law
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  Speaker 1: is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet.
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  Speaker 1: If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand men,
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  Speaker 1: and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.
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  Speaker 1: One's own self conquered is better than all other people.
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  Speaker 1: Not even a god, a Gandharva, not Mara with Brahmin,
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  Speaker 1: could change into defeat the victory of a man who
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  Speaker 1: has vanquished himself and always lives under restraint. If a
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  Speaker 1: man for a hundred years sacrifice month after month with
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  Speaker 1: a thousand, and if he but for one moment pay
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  Speaker 1: homage to a man whose soul is grounded in true knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: better is that homage than a sacrifice for a hundred years.
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  Speaker 1: If a man for a hundred years, worship, agony, fire
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  Speaker 1: in the forest, and if he, but for one moment,
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  Speaker 1: pay homage to a man whose soul is grounded in
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  Speaker 1: true knowledge. Better is that homage than sacrifice for a
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  Speaker 1: hundred years. Whatever a man sacrifice in this world as
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  Speaker 1: an offering or as an oblation for a whole year
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  Speaker 1: in order to gain merit, the whole of it is
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  Speaker 1: not worth a quarter a farthing. Reverence shown to the
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  Speaker 1: righteous is better. He who always greets and constantly revers
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  Speaker 1: the aged four things will increase to him, namely life, beauty, happiness, power.
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  Speaker 1: But he who lives a hundred years vicious and unrestrained,
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  Speaker 1: a life of one day is better. If a man
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  Speaker 1: is virtuous and reflecting, and he who lives a hundred
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  Speaker 1: years ignorant and unrestrained. A life of one day is better.
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  Speaker 1: If a man is wise and reflecting, and he who
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  Speaker 1: lives a hundred years idle and weak. A life of
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  Speaker 1: one day is better. If a man has attained firm strength,
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  Speaker 1: and he who lives a hundred years not seeing beginning
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  Speaker 1: and end, A life of one day is better. If
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  Speaker 1: a man sees beginning and end, and he who lives
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  Speaker 1: a hundred years not seeing the immortal place. A life
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  Speaker 1: of one day is better if a man sees the
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  Speaker 1: immortal place, and he who lives a hundred years not
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  Speaker 1: seeing the highest law, a life of one day is
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  Speaker 1: better if a man sees the highest law. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight