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Syair 269

 

Karena ia dapat memilih apa yang baik dan menghindari apa yang buruk maka ia disebut orang suci. Demikian juga, ia yang telah mengerti kedua dunia itu (baik dan buruk) dapat disebut orang suci.

 

Karena dheweke bisa milih apa kang becik sarta nyimpangi apa kang ala, mula dheweke sinebut wong suci. Mangkono uga, dheweke kang wis ngerti bedane jagad werna loro (ala lan becik) patut sinebut wong kang suci.

 

 

A man is not a Muni because he observes silence (mona, i.e. mauna), if he is foolish and ignorant; but the wise who, as with the balance, chooses the good and avoids evil, he is a Muni, and is a Muni thereby; he who in this world weights both sides is called a Muni.

 

ppni parivajjeti

sa mun tena so muni

yo munti ubho loke

mun tena pavuccati

 


Sumber:

Kitab Suci DHAMMAPADA, Bodhimandala Rumah Suci (Surabaya), Bodhimandala Sanggar Suci (Lawang), 1989

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