1.3.0 So Few out of Many Human
So few are there amongst human beings to go beyond the further shore
The majority of them keeps running up and down the hither shore
But those who follow accordingly the Dhamma, truly well expounded
These people will reach the other shore and surpass the realm of death so hard to cross
Giving up the states of darkness let the wise man cultivate the states of brightness
Giving up home for homelessness, dwelling in solitude where desires are far away
In this way one should seek the bliss of those having abandoned those with nothing left to hold
Let thus the Wise One’s purify—cleaning themselves from the defilements of the mind
Who rightly cultivate the mind—growing in the factors of enlightenment
Enjoying to be cleansed of attachments, to be free from clinging
Their mental defilements stand destroyed, resplendent in this world are they,
the Liberated One’s
