In whom they’re defeated–
the thorn of sensuality,
insult,
assault,
& imprisonment:
Like a mountain standing unperturbed,
he doesn’t quiver
from pleasures & pains
: a monk.
Notes
1. All the major editions here read, nappaṭibhāseyya: “He/it would have not said in return.” This makes no sense, so I follow a variant reading listed in the Burmese edition, nappaṭibheyya (the optative of paṭibhāti).
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