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426 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
and form, and does not grieve over what is no more, he indeed is called a Bhikkhu.
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“The Bhikkhu who behaves with kindness, who is happy in the doctrine of Buddha, will reach Nibbana—happiness arising from the cessation of natural inclinations.
“O Bhikkhu, empty this boat! If emptied, it will go quickly, having cut off passion and hatred, thou wilt go to Nibbana.
“Cut off the five (fetters), leave the five, rise above the five. A Bhikkhu who has escaped from the five fetters, he is called Oghatinna, ‘saved from the flood.’
“Meditate, O Bhikkhu, and be not heedless ! Do not direct thy thought to what gives pleasure.
“Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation there is no knowledge: he who has knowledge and meditation is near unto Nibbana.
“A Bhikkhu who has entered his empty house, and whose mind is tranquil, feels a more than human delight when he sees the Dhamma clearly.
“And this is the beginning here for a wise Bhikku; watchfulness over the senses, contentedness, restraint under the Dhamma; keep noble friends whose life is pure, and who are not slothful.
“Let him live on charity, let him be perfect in his duties; then in the fulness of delight he will make an end of suffering.
“Rouse thyself by thyself, examine thyself by thyself, thus self-protected and attentive wilt thou live happily, O Bhikkhu.
“For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a noble horse.
“A Bhikkhu (mendicant) who delights in earnestness, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness, moves about like fire, burning all his fetters, small or large.
“A Bhikkhu (mendicant) who delights in reflection, who looks with fear on thoughtlessness,