pāpakārī ubhayattha socati.
So socati so vihaññati,
disvā kammakiliṭṭhamattano.
The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; one grieves in both the worlds.
One laments and is afflicted,
recollecting one's own impure deeds.
The Dhammapada is the best known and most widely esteemed text in the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. The work is included in the Khuddaka Nikaya (“Minor Collection”) of the Sutta Pitaka, but its popularity has raised it far above the single niche it occupies in the scriptures to the ranks of a world religious classic. Composed in the ancient Pali language, this slim anthology of verses constitutes a perfect compendium of the Buddha’s teaching, comprising between its covers all the essential principles elaborated at length in the forty-odd volumes of the Pali canon.
Idha socati pecca socati;
pāpakārī ubhayattha socati. So socati so vihaññati, disvā kammakiliṭṭhamattano. The evil-doer grieves here and hereafter; one grieves in both the worlds. One laments and is afflicted, recollecting one's own impure deeds.
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Atītaṃ nānusocanti,
nappajappanti nāgataṃ, paccuppannena yāpenti, tena vaṇṇo pasīdati. They do not lament over the past, they yearn not for what is to come, they maintain themselves in the present, thus their complexion is serene. Asāre sāramatino
sāre cāsāradassino, te sāraṃ nādhigacchanti, micchāsaṅkappagocarā. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential. |