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Provisions

Перевод: Бхиккху Суджато

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“What binds the provisions for a journey? ^[1]

What’s the vault of wealth? ^[2]

What drags a person around?

What in the world is hard to give up?

With what are ordinary beings bound,

like birds in a snare?”

“Faith binds the provisions for a journey. ^[3]

Majesty is the vault of wealth. ^[4]

Desire drags a person around.

Desire in the world is hard to give up.

Ordinary beings are bound by desire,

like birds in a snare.”

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[1] Pātheyya is equivalent to the archaic Latinate viatica, “provisions for a journey”. Both this question and the next have the literal sense of safeguarding one’s possessions.

[2] Āsaya here has the sense of a place of safety (see Manu 7.160), which for wealth is a “vault”.

[3] The Buddha elevates the meaning, since faith holds all the factors of the path together.

[4] Sirī (“majesty”) is explained by the commentary is issariya, “sovereignty”. This suggests that the sense is that wealth can only be safeguarded by power. Alternatively, sirī can also mean “luck” or “Lady Luck”, suggesting that the keeping of wealth is just a matter of luck.