[732] Then the Venerable Vaṅgīsa, having by himself dispelled his own discontent and aroused delight, on that occasion spoke these verses:
"Having abandoned discontent and delight
and every thought bound up with the household life,
one should not foster a thicket (vanatha) in regard to anything;
free of the thicket, unbent — he indeed is a bhikkhu.
Whatever there is here, upon the earth and in the sky,
partaking of form, immersed in the world —
all of it wears away, all is impermanent;
having understood it thus, those who know themselves (mutattā) fare on.
People are bound by greed to acquisitions (upadhi),
to the seen and the heard, to the impinged and the sensed;
dispel desire for these, remaining unstirred —
he who is not smeared by these, him they call a sage (muni).
Then there are those attached to the sixty, teeming with thoughts,
settled in what is not Dhamma among the mass of worldlings (puthujjana);
but he who nowhere goes into the whirl,
nor speaks what is depraved — he is a bhikkhu.
Capable, long concentrated,
undeceitful, prudent, free from longing,
the sage has attained the peaceful state; in dependence upon it,
fully quenched (parinibbuta), he awaits his time."
The Third: The Pesalātimaññanā Sutta.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.