Thag 2.20Sirima
Pāli / Sanskrit:Sirimattheragāthā
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– THERAGĀTHĀ
– BOOK OF THE TWOS
2.20. Sirimā
BJT 159“If others praise a person who is not inwardly composed, their praise is mistaken, because that person is not inwardly composed.
BJT 160“If others criticize a person who is well composed within, their criticism is mistaken, because that person is well composed within.”
The venerable elder Sirimā spoke these verses thus.
The verses of the elder Sirimā.
The second chapter.
SUMMARY OF THIS CHAPTER
“Cunda, Jotidāsa, and the elder Heraññakāni; Somamitta, Sabbamitta, Kāla, Tissa and Kimbila, Nanda, and Sirimā too: the ten elders of great spiritual power.”
Translated by Bhikkhu Indacanda , 2011 . Based on the Buddha Jayanthi edition of the Pali canon, as corrected by Bhikkhu Indacanda. Full text, translation, and notes are available at the translator’s website: http://tamtangpaliviet.net/.
Used by kind permission of the translator.
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