375. Let the wise mendicant in this world thus begin; Guard thou thy senses; next, with mind content, By discipline restrained, seek noble friends Who zealous live and pure; 376. And by the laws of friendship act, live perfectly, And upright walk according to the Norm; Then in the fullness of thy joy thou shalt An end of suffering make. 377. O mendicants! just as the snow-white _vassikâ_, The jasmine, putting forth fresh blooms to-day, Sheds down the withered blooms of yesterday, So shed ye lust and hate. 378. Tranquil in body, speech and mind, O mendicants, Whoso in every way is well-restrained, Who all this world's desires hath thrown aside He is "the tranquil" called. 379. Rouse thou the self by self, by self examine self; Thus guarded by the self, and with thy mind Intent and watchful, thus, O mendicant, Thou shall live happily. 380. Yea! Self is guard of self and refuge takes in self; Just as a dealer trains a thoroughbred, A noble steed, and breaks him to the rein, So do thou self restrain. 381. That mendicant, with utter joy and gladness filled, Firm in the teaching of the Awakened One, Reaches the bliss where all conditions cease, Reaches the State of Peace. 382. Lo ye! a mendicant, though young he be, that strives To grasp the teaching of the Awakened One, Lights up the world, as from a cloud released The moon lights up the night. [1] Cf. vv. 229-30. [2] _Nāma rūpa_, a traditional Vedic term for "mind and Matter," the immortal and the perishable, borrowed by the Buddha to stand for the mental and bodily compound in the individual, cf. _Buddhist Psychology_, Mrs. C.A. Rhys-Davids, pp. 23-5. [3] The body with its needs and passions (water in the boat) hampers the progress across the stream. [4] I. The first five fetters of _delusion of self_, _doubt_, _ceremonial observance_, _lust_ and _ill-will_. II. The second five fetters of _desire for form_, _desire for the formless_, _pride_, _vanity_ and _ignorance_. III. If the verb of the third clause, _vuttaribhāvaye_, be translated "pay attention to," as is possible, the meaning will be, "develop the five good qualities of _faith_, _zeal_, _concentration_, _meditation_, _wisdom_." IV. This may refer to the second five fetters, by throwing off which one becomes an Arahat. [5] "Toss thee," reading _kāmagunā bhamiṁsu_ (for _kāmagune bhamassu_) as Prof. Dines Andersen suggests (p. 192, _Glossary to Dhammapada._ Pt. 2). [6] Cf. v. 107. One of the tortures in the hells. [7] "ecstasy," _jhāna_. There are four stages of mystic meditation leading to rebirth in the higher worlds. [8] "Empty cell," _suññāgāram_, may refer to the meditation in the "cave of the heart," when all thought vibrations are stilled, cf. v. 37. [9] "The rise and fall," reading _udayavyayam_. cf. v. 113. [10] 'immortality': _viz._: 'the Ambrosial'.