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　　11. VIGAYASUTTA.

　　A reflection on the worthlessness of the human body; a follower of Buddha only sees the body as it really is, and consequently goes to Nibbâna.--Comp. Gâtaka I, p. 146.

　　 1. If either walking or standing, sitting or lying, any one contracts (or) stretches (his body, then) this is the motion of the body. (192)

　　 2. The body which is put together with bones and sinews, plastered with membrane and flesh, and covered with skin, is not seen as it really is. (193)

　　 3. It is filled with the intestines, the stomach, the lump of the liver, the abdomen, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, the spleen. (194)

　　 4. With mucus, saliva, perspiration, lymph, blood, the fluid that lubricates the joints, bile, and fat. (195)

　　 5. Then in nine streams impurity flows always from it; from the eye the eye-excrement, from the ear the ear-excrement, (196)

　　 6. Mucus from the nose, through the mouth it ejects at one time bile and (at other times) it ejects phlegm, and from (all) the body come sweat and dirt. (197)

　　 7. Then its hollow head is filled with the brain. A fool led by ignorance thinks it a fine thing. (198)

　　 8. And when it lies dead, swollen and livid, discarded in the cemetery, relatives do not care (for it). (199)

　　 9. Dogs eat it and jackals, wolves and worms; crows and vultures eat it, and what other living creatures there are. (200)

　　 10. The Bhikkhu possessed of understanding in this world, having listened to Buddha”s words, he

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　　certainly knows it (i.e. the body) thoroughly, for he sees it as it really is. (201)

　　 11. "As this (living body is) so is that (dead one), as this is so that (will be[1]); let one put away desire for the body, both as to its interior and as to its exterior." (202)

　　 12. Such a Bhikkhu who has turned away from desire and attachment, and is possessed of understanding in this world, has (already) gone to the immortal peace, the unchangeable state of Nibbâna. (203)

　　 13. This (body) with two feet is cherished (although) impure, ill-smelling, filled with various kinds of stench, and trickling here and there. (204)

　　 14. He who with such a body thinks to exalt himself or despises others--what else (is this) but blindness

　　 (205)

　　Vigayasutta is ended.

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　　12. MUNISUTTA.

　　Definition of a Muni.

　　 1. From acquaintanceship arises fear, from house-life arises defilement; the houseless state, freedom from acquaintanceship--this is indeed the view of a Muni. (206)

　　 2. Whosoever, after cutting down the (sin that has) arisen, does not let (it again) take root and does not give way to it while springing up towards him, him

　　[1. Yathâ idam tathâ etam

　　 Yathâ etam tathâ idam.]

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　　the solitarily wandering they call a Muni; such a great Isi has seen the state of peace[1]. (207)

　　 3. Having considered the causes (of sin, and) killed the seed, let him not give way to desire for it; such a Muni who sees the end of birth and destruction (i.e. Nibbâna), after leaving reasoning behind, does not enter the number (of living beings)[2]. (208)

　　 4. He who has penetrated all the resting-places[3] (of the mind, and) does not wish for any of them,--such a Muni indeed, free from covetousness and free from greediness, does not gather up (resting-places), for he has reached the other shore. (209)

　　 5. The man who has overcome everything, who knows everything, who is possessed of a good understanding, undefiled in all things (dhamma), abandoning everything, liberated in the destruction of desire (i.e. Nibbâna), him the wise style a Muni[4]. (210)

　　 6. The man who has the strength of understanding, is endowed with virt…

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