7. By means of penance, or anything disliked, or what has been seen, or heard, or thought, going upwards they wail for what is pure, without being free from desire for reiterated existence. (901)

8. For him who wishes (for something there always are) desires[1], and trembling in (the midst of his) plans; he for whom there is no death and no re-birth, how can he tremble or desire anything? (902)

9. What some call the highest Dhamma, that others again call wretched; which one of these, pray, is the true doctrine (vada)? for all these assert themselves (to be the only) expert. (903)

10. Their own Dhamma they say is perfect, another's Dhamma again they say is wretched; so having disagreed they dispute, they each say their own opinions (are) the truth. (904)

11. If one (becomes) low by another's censure, then there will be no one distinguished amongst the Dhammas; for they all say another's Dhamma (is) low, in their own they say there is something firm[2]. (905)

[1. Gappitani.

2. Parassa ke vamhayitena hino
Na koki dhammesu visesi assa,
Puthu hi annassa vadanti dhammam
Nihinato samhi dalham vadana.]

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12. The worshipping of their own Dhamma is as great as their praise of their own ways; all schools would be in the same case, for their purity is individual[1]. (906)

13. There is nothing about a Brahmana dependent upon others, nothing amongst the Dhammas which he would embrace after investigation; therefore he has overcome the disputes, for he does not regard any other Dhamma as the best. (907)

14. 'I understand, I see likewise this,' so saying, some by (their philosophical) views return to purity. If he saw purity, what then (has been effected) by another's view? Having conquered they say that purity exists by another[2]. (?) (908)

15. A seeing man will see name and form, and having seen he will understand those (things); let him at pleasure see much or little, for the expert do not say that purity exists by that. (909)

16. A dogmatist is no leader to purity, being guided by prejudiced views, saying that good consists in what he is given to, and saying that purity is there, he saw the thing so[3]. (910)

17. A Brahmana does not enter time, (or) the

[1. Sadhammapuga ka pana tath' eva
Yatha pasamsanti sakayanani,
Sabbe pavada tath' iva bhaveyyum
Suddhi hi nesam pakkattam eva.

2. Ganami passami tath' eva etam
ditthiya eke pakkenti suddhim
Addakkhi ke kim hi tumassa tena
Atisitva annena vadanti suddhim.

3. Nivissavadi na hi suddhinayo
Pakappita ditthi purekkharano
Yam nissito tattha subham vadano
Suddhim vado tattha, tath' addasa so.]

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