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23 - The Elephant - The Dhammapada · Wisdom of the Ages Library

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  Chapter twenty three. The elephant silently, shall I endure abuse as the elephant
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  in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow, For the world is ill
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  natured. They lead a tame elephant to battle. The king mounts a tamed
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  elephant. The tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.
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  Mules are good if tamed, and noble sindow horses and elephants with large
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  tusks. But he who tames himself is better still. For with these animals
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  does no man reach the untrodden country Nirvana, where a tamed man goes on
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  a tamed animal, namely on his own well tamed self. The elephant called
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  don Apolloca, his temples running with sap and difficult to hold, does not
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  eat a morsel. When bound, the elephant longs for the elephant grove.
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  If a man becomes fat and a great eater, if he is sleepy and
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  rolls himself about, that fool like a hog fed on wash, is born
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  again and again. This mind of mine went formerly wandering about as it liked,
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  as it listed as it pleased. But I shall now hold it in
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  thoroughly, as the rider who holds the hook holds in the furious elephant.
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  Be not thoughtless, watch your thoughts. Draw yourself out of the evil way,
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  like an elephant sunk in mud. If a man find a prudent companion
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  who walks with him is wise and lives soberly, he may walk with him
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  overcoming all dangers, happy, but considerate. If a man find no prudent
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  companion who walks with him is wise and lives soberly, let him walk alone,
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  like a king who has left his conquered country behind. Like an elephant
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  in the forest. It is better to live alone. There is no companionship
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  with a fool. Let a man walk alone. Let him commit no sin,
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  with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest. If an occasion
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  arises, friends are pleasant, Enjoyment is pleasant, whatever be the cause.
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  A good work is pleasant. In the hour of death, the giving up
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  of all grief is pleasant. Pleasant In the world is the state of a
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  mother pleasant, The state of a father pleasant, the state of a somana
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  pleasant, the state of a bramina pleasant is virtue lasting to old age.
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  Pleasant is a faith firmly rooted. Pleasant is attainment of intelligence. Pleasant is
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  avoiding of sins. End of Chapter twenty three,