[9] This was the reply of the Buddha to an ascetic who, struck by the Master's radiance after attaining _Nibbāna_, inquired who was His teacher and what was the cause of His joy. [10] _Bhoga_, _rāga_, _dosa_, _moha_, _iccha_, riches, lust, hate, delusion, craving, are five of the hindrances to the saintly life. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. THE MENDICANT. 360-1 Good is restraint of eye and ear, of nose and tongue, Of body, speech and mind; restraint is good In every way; the mendicant restrained All sorrow casts away. 362. In hand and foot and speech whoso is self restrained; Whoso to ponder inwardly delights, Who liveth lonely and is well-content, Him men call mendicant. 363. Whoso controls his lips, and words of wisdom speaks, Is not puffed up, who can elucidate The meaning and the essence of The Norm-- Pleasant is he to hear. 364. Who dwelleth in the Norm and in the Norm delights, Who searcheth out and well remembers it-- From the True Norm that steadfast mendicant Will never fall away. 365. Let him not think of little worth the alms he gains. Nor jealous be of alms to others given; For whoso envies other mendicants Wins not tranquillity. 366. Though small the part of charity that falls to him, Whoso despiseth not the alms he gains, If he live clean, not given to slothfulness, E'en by the gods is praised.[1] 367. Whoso hath neither part nor lot in Name and Form[2] (Who saith not "this is I" or "this is mine") And grieveth not for what existeth not, A mendicant is called. 368. Whoso in friendly wise with all mankind abides, Firm in the teaching of the Awakened One; Reaches the bliss where all conditions cease, Reaches the State of Peace. 369. O mendicants! bail out the water from this boat![3] Swift will it go when from this burden freed. Of passion and of hatred cut the root; Then shalt thou reach The Peace. 370. Cut off the five; desert the five; the five subdue! That mendicant, who from the fetters five[4] Hath freed himself at last, by men is called "A crosser of the Stream". 371. O mendicant! be meditative; let not sloth,[5] Let not thy passions toss thee to and fro;[6] Lest, swallowing the ball, thou burning cry, "Ah! this is suffering!" 372. Who hath no wisdom cannot ecstasy attain;[7] Who knows not ecstasy, no wisdom gains; Whoso both ecstasy and wisdom hath, Unto The Peace is nigh. 373. The mendicant, whose mind hath gained tranquillity, When he hath entered on his empty cell,[8] Hath joy beyond man's power to tell, for he The Truth discerneth well. 374. Soon as he grasps the rise and fall of elements,[9] Such pleasure and delight thereby he wins As falls to them that rightly know the state Of immortality.[10]