{"id":"thag6.5","title":"Māluṅkyaputta (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag6.5","title":"Māluṅkyaputta (1st)","units":[{"id":"thag6.5:0","sourceIds":["thag6.5:0.1","thag6.5:0.2","thag6.5:0.3","thag6.5:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 6.5\nChakkanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nMālukyaputtattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 6.5\nThe Book of the Sixes\nChapter One\nMāluṅkyaputta (1st)"}},{"id":"thag6.5:1","sourceIds":["thag6.5:1.1","thag6.5:1.2","thag6.5:1.3","thag6.5:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Manujassa pamattacārino,\nTaṇhā vaḍḍhati māluvā viya;\nSo plavatī hurā huraṁ,\nPhalamicchaṁva vanasmi vānaro.","en":"When a man lives heedlessly,\ncraving grows in them like a camel’s foot creeper.\nThey jump from one thing to the next, like a langur\ngreedy for fruit in a forest grove."}},{"id":"thag6.5:2","sourceIds":["thag6.5:2.1","thag6.5:2.2","thag6.5:2.3","thag6.5:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ esā sahate jammī,\ntaṇhā loke visattikā;\nSokā tassa pavaḍḍhanti,\nabhivaṭṭhaṁva bīraṇaṁ.","en":"Whoever is beaten by this wretched craving,\nthis attachment to the world,\ntheir sorrow grows,\nlike grass in the rain."}},{"id":"thag6.5:3","sourceIds":["thag6.5:3.1","thag6.5:3.2","thag6.5:3.3","thag6.5:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo cetaṁ sahate jammiṁ,\ntaṇhaṁ loke duraccayaṁ;\nSokā tamhā papatanti,\nudabindūva pokkharā.","en":"But whoever prevails over this wretched craving,\nso hard to get over in the world,\ntheir sorrows fall from them,\nlike a drop from a lotus-leaf."}},{"id":"thag6.5:4","sourceIds":["thag6.5:4.1","thag6.5:4.2","thag6.5:4.3","thag6.5:4.4","thag6.5:4.5","thag6.5:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Taṁ vo vadāmi bhaddaṁ vo,\nyāvantettha samāgatā;\nTaṇhāya mūlaṁ khaṇatha,\nusīratthova bīraṇaṁ;\nMā vo naḷaṁva sotova,\nmāro bhañji punappunaṁ.","en":"I say this to you, good people,\nall those who have gathered here:\ndig up the root of craving,\nas you’d dig up the grass in search of roots.\nDon’t let Māra break you again and again,\nlike a stream breaking a reed."}},{"id":"thag6.5:5","sourceIds":["thag6.5:5.1","thag6.5:5.2","thag6.5:5.3","thag6.5:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Karotha buddhavacanaṁ,\nkhaṇo vo mā upaccagā;\nKhaṇātītā hi socanti,\nnirayamhi samappitā.","en":"Act on the Buddha’s words,\ndon’t let the moment pass you by.\nFor if you miss your moment\nyou’ll grieve when sent to hell."}},{"id":"thag6.5:6","sourceIds":["thag6.5:6.1","thag6.5:6.2","thag6.5:6.3","thag6.5:6.4","thag6.5:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pamādo rajo pamādo,\npamādānupatito rajo;\nAppamādena vijjāya,\nabbahe sallamattano”ti.\n… Mālukyaputto thero ….","en":"Negligence is always dust;\ndust follows right behind negligence.\nThrough diligence and knowledge,\npluck out the dart from yourself."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag6.5/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}