Chakkanipāta

The Book of the Sixes

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Theragāthā 6.4

Verses of the Senior Monks 6.4

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Chakkanipāta

The Book of the Sixes

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Paṭhamavagga

Chapter One

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Kullattheragāthā

Kulla

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“Kullo sivathikaṁ gantvā,

I, Kulla, went to a charnel ground

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addasa itthimujjhitaṁ;

and saw a woman’s body abandoned there,

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Apaviddhaṁ susānasmiṁ,

dumped in a cemetery,

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khajjantiṁ kimihī phuṭaṁ.

full of worms that devoured.

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Āturaṁ asuciṁ pūtiṁ,

“See this bag of bones, Kulla—

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passa kulla samussayaṁ;

diseased, filthy, rotten,

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Uggharantaṁ paggharantaṁ,

oozing and trickling,

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bālānaṁ abhinanditaṁ.

a fool’s delight.”

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Dhammādāsaṁ gahetvāna,

Taking the teaching as a mirror

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ñāṇadassanapattiyā;

for realizing knowledge and vision,

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Paccavekkhiṁ imaṁ kāyaṁ,

I examined this body,

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tucchaṁ santarabāhiraṁ.

hollow, inside and out.

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Yathā idaṁ tathā etaṁ,

As this is, so is that;

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yathā etaṁ tathā idaṁ;

as that is, so is this.

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Yathā adho tathā uddhaṁ,

As below, so above;

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yathā uddhaṁ tathā adho.

as above, so below.

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Yathā divā tathā rattiṁ,

As by day, so by night;

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yathā rattiṁ tathā divā;

as by night, so by day.

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Yathā pure tathā pacchā,

As before, so behind;

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yathā pacchā tathā pure.

as behind, so before.

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Pañcaṅgikena turiyena,

Even the music of a five-piece band

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Na ratī hoti tādisī;

can never give such pleasure

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Yathā ekaggacittassa,

as when, with unified mind,

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Sammā dhammaṁ vipassato”ti.

you rightly discern the Dhamma.

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… Kullo thero ….