{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag14.2/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag14.2","id":"suttacentral_thag14.2","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag14.2/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"Just as a fine thoroughbred, yoked to a carriage, endures the load. Though oppressed by the heavy burden, it doesn\u2019t shake off the yoke. So too, those who are as full of wisdom as the ocean is with water, don\u2019t look down on others; this is the teaching of the noble ones <j>for living creatures. People who fall under the sway of time, the sway of rebirth in this or that state, undergo suffering, and those young men grieve in this life. Elated by things that bring happiness, downcast by things that bring suffering: this pair destroys the fool who doesn\u2019t see things as they are. But those who in suffering, and in happiness, and in the middle have overcome the weaver\u2014 they stand like Indra\u2019s pillar, neither elated nor downcast. Not to gain nor loss, not to fame nor reputation, not to criticism nor praise, not to suffering nor happiness\u2014 the wise cling to nothing, like a droplet on a lotus-leaf. They are happy everywhere, and victorious everywhere. There\u2019s legitimate loss, and there\u2019s illegitimate gain. Legitimate loss is better than illegitimate gain. There\u2019s the fame of the unintelligent, and there\u2019s the disrepute of the discerning. The disrepute of the discerning is better than the fame of the unintelligent. There\u2019s praise by simpletons, and there\u2019s criticism by the discerning. Criticism by the discerning is better than praise by fools. There\u2019s the happiness of sensual pleasures, and there\u2019s the suffering of seclusion. The suffering of seclusion is better than the happiness of sensual pleasures. There\u2019s life without principles, and there\u2019s death with principles. Death with principles is better than life without principles. Those who\u2019ve given up desire and anger, their minds at peace <j>regarding rebirth in this or that state, wander in the world unattached, for them nothing is beloved or unloved. Having developed the awakening factors, the faculties and the powers, having arrived at ultimate peace, the undefiled become fully quenched.","title":"Godatta","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":321}