Verse 335. How Craving Increases

Whomsoever in this world
this wretched clinging craving routs
for such a one do sorrows grow
as grass well-soaked with rain.

Explanation: If some one is overcome by craving which is described as lowly and poisonous, his sorrows grow as swiftly and profusely as birana grass, after being exposed to repeated rains.

 

Treasury of Truth: Illustrated Dhammapada – 423 Verses

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