Appamadavagga ⧸ Gāthā 28
Pamādaṃ appamādena yadā nudati paṇḍito
Paññāpāsādamāruyha asoko sokiniṃ pajaṃ
Pabbataṭṭho va bhummaṭṭhe dhīro bāle avekkhati
Paññāpāsādamāruyha asoko sokiniṃ pajaṃ
Pabbataṭṭho va bhummaṭṭhe dhīro bāle avekkhati
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On Earnestness ⧸ Verse 28
When the learned man drives away vanity by earnestness, he, the wise, climbing the terraced heights of wisdom, looks down upon the fools, serene he looks upon the toiling crowd, as one that stands on a mountain looks down upon them that stand upon the plain.
English translation by Max Müller, from The Sacred Books of the East (1881).
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