Khuddaka Nikaya - Theragatha 4

Khuddaka Nikaya - Theragatha 4

Thag 4.8
Rahula
Translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro BhikkhuPTS: vv. 295-298



Source: Transcribed from a file provided by the translator.



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In both ways
consummate,1
I'm known as Rahula
the Fortunate:
because I'm the son of the Buddha,
because I've the eye that sees Dhammas,
because my fermentations are ended,
because I've no further becoming.
I'm deserving of offerings,
a worthy one
a three-knowledge man,2
with sight
of the Deathless.

Those
blinded by sensuality
covered by the net,
veiled by the veil of craving,
bound by the Kinsman of the heedless,3
are like fish in the mouth of a trap.

Throwing that sensuality aside,
cutting through Mara's bond,
pulling out craving, root & all,
cooled am I,
Unbound.
Notes
1. This phrase can be taken in two ways: (a) consummate in that he has a pure
lineage on both his mother's and his father's side; and (b) consummate in that
he belongs both to a well-born lineage in the worldly sense and, by means of his
meditative attainments, to the lineage of the noble ones.
2. One with knowledge of past lives, knowledge of the passing away and rearising
of living beings, and knowledge of the ending of mental fermentations.
3. Mara.


Thag 4.10
Dhammika

The Dhamma protects
those who live by the Dhamma.
The Dhamma well-practiced
brings bliss.
This — the reward
when the Dhamma's well-practiced:
one who lives by the Dhamma
doesn't go to a bad destination.

For Dhamma and non-
don't bear equal results.
Non-Dhamma leads you to hell;
Dhamma, to a good destination.

So you should engender desire
for acts of Dhamma,
rejoicing
in the One Well-gone,
the one who is Such.
Standing firm in the Dhamma,
of the foremost
One Well-gone,
his disciples are guided
— enlightened —
to the foremost
refuge supreme.

Burst is the root of the boil;
the net of craving uprooted.
He, having ended his wandering-on,
has no stain —
like the moon
on a clear full-moon night.