Dhammika

Thag 4.10

The Dhamma protects

those who live by the Dhamma.

The Dhamma well-practiced

brings bliss.

This — the reward

when the Dhamma’s well-practiced:

one who lives by the Dhamma

doesn’t go to a bad destination.

For Dhamma and non-

don’t bear equal results.

Non-Dhamma leads you to hell;

Dhamma, to a good destination.

So you should engender desire

for acts of Dhamma,

rejoicing

in the One Well-gone,

the one who is Such.

Standing firm in the Dhamma,

of the foremost

One Well-gone,

his disciples are guided

— enlightened —

to the foremost

refuge supreme.

Burst is the root of the boil;

the net of craving uprooted.

He, having ended his wandering-on,

has no stain —

like the moon

on a clear full-moon night.