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Dhammapada
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390*390:

Nothing's better for the brahman
than when the mind is held back
from what is endearing & not.
However his harmful-heartedness
    wears away,
that's how stress
simply comes to rest.

 



390: "What's endearing & not": In the phrase manaso piyehi, piyehi can be read straight as it is, as "endearing," or as an elided form of apiyehi, "not endearing." The former reading is more straightforward, but given the reference to "harmful-heartedness" in the next line, the latter reading serves to tie the stanza together. It is also consistent with the fact that DhpA takes this verse to be a continuation of 389. Given the way in which kavya cultivated a taste for ambiguities and multiple interpretations, both readings may have been intended.





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