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Ja 19

The Vowed Feast: a past life story

9. Āyācitabhattajātaka

Ethics

The Vowed Feast: a past life story

If you would be released, after death might you be released,
because releasing binds.
That’s not how the attentive are released;
such release is the fool’s bondage.

Translation: German (Julius Dutoit, 1872–1958), published 1908–1916 · in copyright until the end of 2028, source palikanon.com. Pāli and English (SuttaCentral / Bilara, public domain, CC0). See Sources & Thanks. The title and the verse are additionally available in the German translation by Ayyā Sabbamittā (SuttaCentral / Bilara, public domain, CC0).

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