Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana - Second Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 8

Khuddaka Nikaya - Nettippakarana ( The Guide ) - Second Grouping - Illustrative Quotations 8

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TRANSLATED FROM THE PALI BY
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[viii (a)]
919. Herein, what is the profitable ?
( Who guards his speech, is well restrained in mind,
Does no unprofit by the body's means:
Who purifies this triple course of action,
Will win the path the Sages have divulged) (Dh. 281; Pe 70).
This is the profitable.
920. ( Who has no more wrongdoing done
By body or by speech or mind,
Who is in triple mode restrained,
'Tis him I call divine) (Dh. 391).
This is the profitable.
921. (Bhikkhus, there are these three roots of profit. What three?
They are non-greed as a root of profit, non-hate as a root of profit,
and non-delusion as a root of profit. These are the three roots of
profit) (A. i, 203).
This is the profitable.
918/1 Ripening of action is only one of the causes of feeling- see S. iv, 230-1.

922. (Bhikkhus, science heralds the perfecting of profitable ideas,
with conscience and shame following in its wake) (Iti. 34).
This is the profitable.
[viii (b)]
923. Herein, what is the unprofitable?
( A man who is excessive in unvirtue,
Like mdluva-vines choking said-trees,
Does act in such a way he makes himself
Exactly as his enemy would wish) (Dh. 162).
This is the unprofitable.
924. (The evil by oneself performed, self-born,
Owing to self its actual existence,
Grinds away them so stupid [as to do it],
As does the adamant the stony gem) (Dh. 161).
This is the unprofitable.
925. [184] (The profitless, who profit miss
In action's tenfold course fulfilling,
Are censurable, deity,
As fools who ripen out in hell) ( ).
This is the unprofitable.
926. (Bhikkhus, there are these three roots of unprofit. What three ?
They are greed as a root of unprofit, hate as a root of unprofit, and
delusion as a root of unprofit. These are the three roots of unprofit)
(A. i, 201).
This is the unprofitable.
[viii (c)]
927. Herein, what is the profitable and unprofitable ?
( According as the seed is sown
So [later] is the harvest reaped:
And good is for the doer of good,
And evil for the evil-doer ) (S. i, 227; cf. Pe 46).
Herein, the words 'good is for the doer of good' are the profitable,
while the words 'And evil for the evil-doer' are the unprofitable.
This is the profitable and unprofitable.

928. (It is by actions beautiful
That men fare on to heaven,
And owing to their ugly acts,
To states where is no ease.
But with exhaustion of [all] acts
The heart is liberated;
Like lamps with fuel [all] used up
They reach extinguishment ) ( ).
Herein, the words 'It is by actions beautiful That men fare on
to heaven' are the profitable, while the words 'And owing to their
ugly acts, To states where is no ease
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are the unprofitable.
This is the profitable and unprofitable.