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197. Ah, so pleasantly we live
Without enmity among those with enmity.
Among humans with enmity
Do we dwell without enmity.
198. Ah, so pleasantly we live
Without affliction among the afflicted.
Among humans with affliction
Do we dwell without affliction.
199. Ah, so pleasantly we live
Without restlessness among the restless.
Among humans who are restless
Do we dwell without restlessness.
200. Ah, so pleasantly we live,
For whom there is nothing at all our own.
We shall become partakers of joy,
Even as the Radiant Devas.
201. Winning, one engenders enmity;
Miserably sleeps the defeated.
The one at peace sleeps pleasantly,
Having abandoned victory and defeat.
202. There is no fire like passion,
No offence there is like ill will,
There is no misery like the khandhas,
No ease there is higher than peace.
203. Hunger is the illness most severe,
The samkharas the greatest misery.
Knowing this as it is,
[One realises] Nibbana is ease supreme.
204. Health is the highest gain,
Contentment is the highest wealth,
Those inspiring trust are kinsmen supreme,
Nibbana is ease supreme.
205. Having tasted the flavour of seclusion
And the flavour of clam,
One is without distress, free from the bad,
Drinking the flavour of the jos of dhamma.
206. Good is the sight of noble ones,
Their company is always pleasant.
Without the sight of childish ones,
One would constantly be at ease.
207. One moving with childish ones
Grieves for a long time.
Misery is it to live with childish ones.
As it always is with a foe.
The wise one is one with whom to live is pleasant,
As is a gathering of relations.
Wherefore:
208. The wise one, the insightful, and the learned,
Having the virtue of enduring, dutiful, noble,
A person true, intelligent,
With such a one as this, one would associate,
As the moon the path of the stars.