[332] 10.
The Dhamma verily protects the practitioner of the Dhamma (dhammacārī);
the Dhamma well practiced brings happiness (sukha).
This is the benefit (ānisaṃsa) when the Dhamma has been well practiced:
the practitioner of the Dhamma does not go to a bad destination (duggati).
For Dhamma and non-Dhamma (adhamma) do not both have equal results (vipāka):
non-Dhamma leads to hell (niraya); the Dhamma brings one to a good destination (sugati).¹
Therefore indeed one should generate zeal (chanda) for dhammas,
rejoicing thus in the Sublime One (sugata), the steadfast one (tādī);
established in the Dhamma, the disciples of the most excellent Sublime One,
the wise, go forth, bound for the refuge excellent and supreme.
The root of the boil has been burst open; the net of craving (taṇhā) has been utterly uprooted.
He whose round of rebirths (saṃsāra) is exhausted has nothing at all (kiñcana),
like the moon on a clear full-moon night.²
The Elder Dhammika.
¹ [Edition footnote:] Po. Ma.: "jālapacchannā".
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.