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Dhammapada 326

Dhammapada 326

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Pāli

326

Idaṃ pure cittamacāri cārikaṃ,
Yenicchakaṃ yatthakāmaṃ yathāsukhaṃ;
Tadajjahaṃ niggahessāmi yoniso,
Hatthippabhinnaṃ viya aṅkusaggaho.

This mind of mine went formerly wandering about as it liked, as it listed, as it pleased; but I shall now hold it in thoroughly, as the rider who holds the hook holds in the furious elephant.

Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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