Thig 6:7 · Guttā
[The Buddha admonished me:]
Guttā, devote yourself to the goal
for which you went forth,
having discarded [hope]
for a dear son of your own.1
Don’t fall under the sway
of the mind.
Hoodwinked by mind,
beings in love with Māra’s realm,
roam
through the many-birth wandering-on,
unknowing.
Abandoning these lower fetters, nun—
sensual desire, ill will,
self-identity views,
grasping at habits & practices,
and uncertainty as the fifth—
you won’t come
to this again.
Forsaking passion, conceit,
ignorance, & restlessness
—cutting through [all] the fetters—
you will make an end
of suffering & stress.
Discarding birth & wandering-on,
comprehending further becoming,
free from hunger
in the right-here-&-now
you will go about
totally calmed.
Note
1. Reading hitvā puttaṁ visuṁ piyaṁ with the Burmese edition.
Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).
