Thag 14.1 PTS: Thag 645-658- Revata's Farewell

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Thag 14.1 PTS: Thag 645-658- Revata's Farewell
Since I went forth from home into homelessness, I haven't known an ignoble, aversive resolve. "May these beings be destroyed, be slaughtered, fall into pain" — I've not known this resolve in this long, long time. But I have known good will, unlimited, fully developed, nurtured step after step, as taught by the One Awake: <p style="text-align:center;">to all, a friend; <p style="text-align:center;">to all, a comrade; <p style="text-align:center;">for all beings, sympathetic. <p style="text-align:center;">And I develop a mind of good will, <p style="text-align:center;">delighting in non-malevolence — always. <p style="text-align:center;">Unvanquished, unshaken, <p style="text-align:center;">I gladden the mind. <p style="text-align:center;">I develop the sublime abiding, <p style="text-align:center;">not frequented by <p style="text-align:center;">the lowly.

<p style="text-align:center;">Attaining no-thinking, <p style="text-align:center;">the disciple of the Rightly <p style="text-align:center;">Self-awakened One <p style="text-align:center;">is endowed with noble silence <p style="text-align:center;">straightaway.

<p style="text-align:center;">As a mountain of rock <p style="text-align:center;">is unmoving, <p style="text-align:center;">firmly established, <p style="text-align:center;">so a monk, with the ending of delusion, <p style="text-align:center;">like a mountain, doesn't quake.

<p style="text-align:center;">To a person without blemish, <p style="text-align:center;">constantly in search of what's pure, <p style="text-align:center;">a hair-tip of evil <p style="text-align:center;">seems a storm cloud.

<p style="text-align:center;">As a frontier fortress is guarded <p style="text-align:center;">within & without, <p style="text-align:center;">you should safeguard yourselves. <p style="text-align:center;">Don't let the moment <p style="text-align:center;">pass you by.

<p style="text-align:center;">I don't delight in death, <p style="text-align:center;">don't delight in living. <p style="text-align:center;">I await my time <p style="text-align:center;">like a worker his wage. <p style="text-align:center;">I don't delight in death, <p style="text-align:center;">don't delight in living. <p style="text-align:center;">I await my time <p style="text-align:center;">mindful, alert.

<p style="text-align:center;">The Teacher has been served by me; <p style="text-align:center;">the Awakened One's bidding, <p style="text-align:center;">done; <p style="text-align:center;">the heavy load, laid down; <p style="text-align:center;">the guide to becoming, uprooted. <p style="text-align:center;">And the goal for which I went forth <p style="text-align:center;">from home life into homelessness <p style="text-align:center;">I've reached <p style="text-align:center;">the end <p style="text-align:center;">of all fetters. <p style="text-align:center;">Attain completion through heedfulness: <p style="text-align:center;">that is my message. <p style="text-align:center;">So then, I'm about to be <p style="text-align:center;">Unbound. <p style="text-align:center;">I'm released <p style="text-align:center;">everywhere.