Verses on Dhamma 371

371

Jhāya bhikkhu mā pamādo,
Mā te kāmaguṇe ramessu cittaṃ;
Mā lohaguḷaṃ gilī pamatto,
Mā kandi “dukkhamidan”ti dayhamāno.

Meditate, O Bhikshu, and be not heedless! Do not direct thy thought to what gives pleasure that thou mayest not for thy heedlessness have to swallow the iron ball (in hell), and that thou mayest not cry out when burning, 'This is pain.'
[367. Nâmarûpa is here used again in its technical sense of mind and body, neither of which, however, is with the Buddhists âtman, or 'self.' Asat, 'what is not,' may therefore mean the same as nâmarûpa, or we may take it in the sense of what is no more, as, for instance, the beauty or youth of the body, the vigour of the mind, &c.