Texts from the Buddhist canon : commonly known as Dhammapada

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DHAMMAPADA.
flowers and ornaments, unguents and dress ; remove these,
and what is there but unSightliness and disgusting appear-
ance ? Is it with such a form as this, the skin wrinkled
like leather, the body exuding foul smells, that you are so
madly ena,moured, and then he added these verses
" lust I I have discovered thy source and
origin. Born of the bUsy recollections that haunt
the mind. Now ^yill I no more think of thee or
these ; then thou shalt not longer exist for me. Of
the mind alone is lustful desire ;
from oneself arise
the five longings of sense. Haste,, then, to bind
these five desires, and prove thyself a hero indeed I
"Where there is no lust there is no anxious fear
at rest, and quiet, there are no more harrowing
cares for such an one—desire expelled, its tram-
mels for ever cast away. This is indeed to find
true deliverance (Zif .
" for long to come out of the
gulf (of misery)) " [probably the same as " Ogha-
tinna," vide M.M. 370].
Then Buddha, having assumed his glorious appearance,
the twb Shamans were filled with shame, and with deep
repentance fell down at his feet and did obeisance. And
after listening further to his instruction they,^ became
Eahats. Now as they were returning to their place of
abode, the one seeing the happy, contented face of the
other, asked his companion the reason of it, on which he
repeated oyer and over the following lines :
" Day and night was I a slave of lustful desires,
incessantly did my mind dwell on these thoughts ;
but now I have seen the woman I longed for so
' Or, as the following lines would in^oate, only one was able to arrive at
this condition.
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