1:11 Victory

193When one is walking or standing,
sitting or lying down,
when one bends and stretches —
this is the motion of the body. (1)

194Bound together by bones and sinews,
plastered with skin and flesh,
covered by the epidermis,
the body is not seen as it really is — (2)

195as filled with intestines,
filled with the stomach,
with the liver and bladder,
the heart, lungs, kidneys, and spleen; (3)

196with snot and saliva,
with sweat and fat,
with blood and oil of the joints,
with bile and grease. (4)

197Further, from its nine openings
impurity flows constantly:
muck from the eyes,
wax from the ears, (5)

198snot from the nostrils;
and from the mouth one sometimes
vomits bile and vomits phlegm;
sweat and dirt flow from the body. (6)

199Then its hollow head
is filled with the brain.
Led on by ignorance, the fool
conceives it as beautiful. (7)

200And when it is lying dead,
bloated and discolored,
cast off in a charnel ground,
the relatives are unconcerned with it. (8)

201Dogs then devour it,
as do jackals, wolves, and worms;
crows and vultures devour it,
and whatever other beings there are. (9) [35]

202Having heard the Word of the Buddha,
a bhikkhu possessing wisdom here
fully understands it,
because he sees it as it really is: (10)

203“As this, so that;
as that, so this”:
internally and externally
one should expunge desire for the body. (11)

204That bhikkhu possessing wisdom here
who has expunged desire and lust
has attained the deathless, peace,
the imperishable state of nibbāna. (12)

205This two-footed body,
impure and foul-smelling, is cherished,
though filled with various kinds of filth
and oozing here and there. (13)

206One who, because of such a body,
would think to exalt himself
or who would disparage others —
what is this due to but lack of vision? (14)

Vijayasutta

193Caraṁ vā yadi vā tiṭṭhaṁ,
nisinno uda vā sayaṁ;
Samiñjeti pasāreti,
esā kāyassa iñjanā.

194 Aṭṭhinahārusaṁyutto,
tacamaṁsāvalepano;
Chaviyā kāyo paṭicchanno,
yathābhūtaṁ na dissati.

195 Antapūro udarapūro,
yakanapeḷassa vatthino;
Hadayassa papphāsassa,
vakkassa pihakassa ca.

196 Siṅghāṇikāya kheḷassa,
sedassa ca medassa ca;
Lohitassa lasikāya,
pittassa ca vasāya ca.

197 Athassa navahi sotehi,
asucī savati sabbadā;
Akkhimhā akkhigūthako,
kaṇṇamhā kaṇṇagūthako.

198 Siṅghāṇikā ca nāsato,
mukhena vamatekadā;
Pittaṁ semhañca vamati,
kāyamhā sedajallikā.

199 Athassa susiraṁ sīsaṁ,
matthaluṅgassa pūritaṁ;
Subhato naṁ maññati bālo,
avijjāya purakkhato.

200 Yadā ca so mato seti,
Uddhumāto vinīlako;
Apaviddho susānasmiṁ,
Anapekkhā honti ñātayo.

201 Khādanti naṁ suvānā ca,
siṅgālā ca vakā kimī;
Kākā gijjhā ca khādanti,
ye caññe santi pāṇino.

202 Sutvāna buddhavacanaṁ,
Bhikkhu paññāṇavā idha;
So kho naṁ parijānāti,
Yathābhūtañhi passati.

203 Yathā idaṁ tathā etaṁ,
Yathā etaṁ tathā idaṁ;
Ajjhattañca bahiddhā ca,
Kāye chandaṁ virājaye.

204 Chandarāgaviratto so,
Bhikkhu paññāṇavā idha;
Ajjhagā amataṁ santiṁ,
Nibbānaṁ padamaccutaṁ.

205 Dvipādakoyaṁ asuci,
Duggandho parihīrati;
Nānākuṇapaparipūro,
Vissavanto tato tato.

206 Etādisena kāyena,
Yo maññe uṇṇametave;
Paraṁ vā avajāneyya,
Kimaññatra adassanāti.

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Vijayasuttaṁ ekādasamaṁ.