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Tipitaka network … his life, his acts, his words
sabbe satta bhavantu sukhi-tatta
TIPITAKA 
மூன்று கூடைகள்— The words of the Buddha புத்தரின் வார்த்தைகள்—Majjhima மத்திம Nikāya
நடுத்தரமான நீள அளவு திரட்டுகள் -Sabbāsava Sutta எல்லா களங்கங்களின் நெறி முறைக் கட்டளை ஆணை (contd)
Dhammapada Verse 323 Hatthacariyapubbaka Bhikkhu Vatthu-The Right Vehicle To Nibbana
Verse 323. The Right Vehicle To Nibbana
Surely not on mounts like these
one goes the Unfrequented Way
as one by self well-tamed
is tamed and by the taming goes.
Explanation: Indeed, not be any means of transport can one
go to the place one has never been before, but by thoroughly taming
oneself, the tamed one can get to that place - Nibbana.
1. The tamed one: One, who having first controlled the senses, has later
developed Magga Insight. (The Commentary)
The Story of the Bhikkhu Who Had Been a Trainer of Elephants
While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (323) of
this book, with reference to a bhikkhu who had previously been an elephant
trainer.
On one occasion, some bhikkhus saw an elephant trainer and his elephant on
the bank of the river Aciravati. As the trainer was finding it difficult to
control the elephant, one of the bhikkhus, who was an ex-elephant trainer, told
the other bhikkhus how it could be easily handled. The elephant trainer hearing
him did as told by the bhikkhu, and the elephant was quickly subdued. Back at
the monastery, the bhikkhus related the incident to the Buddha. The Buddha
called the ex-elephant trainer bhikkhu to him and said, “O vain bhikkhu,
who is yet far away from Magga and Phala ! You do not gain anything by taming
elephants. There is no one who can get to a place where one has never been
before (i.e.. Nibbana) by taming elephants; only one who has tamed himself can
get there.”
Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
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