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Dec 2011

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Dhammapada Verse 25: An Island Above the...

YUTTADHAMMO BHIKKHU

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Verse 25
By effort and heedfulness, discipline and self-mastery, let the wise one make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

(Translated by Acharya Buddharakkhita)

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