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Dhamma Verses (Dhammapada, KN 2)

Pāli verses with English translation in this collection of 423 Dhamma verses, along with their story and moral.

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26: The Chapter about Brahmins – 343<br />

The one without longings<br />

After Ven. Sāriputta had spent the Rains Retreat with five<br />

hundred monks the lay people still hadn’t donated the<br />

requisites; as he was leaving he asked for the requisites to be<br />

sent on, or that he be told; the monks reported it to the Buddha<br />

who explained it was concern for the donors and the young<br />

monks that made him ask so, and not craving, and then spoke<br />

this verse about the one without craving.<br />

410. Āsā yassa na vijjanti asmiṁ loke paramhi ca,<br />

nirāsayaṁ visaṁyuttaṁ, tam-ahaṁ brūmi brāhmaṇaṁ.<br />

For the one who has no longings<br />

in this world or in the next world,<br />

being without longings, detached,<br />

that one I say is a brahmin.

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