Dhammapada verse 226
Chapter 17, Anger (Kodhavagga) · verses 221–234
“Always wakeful, practicing night and day, focused only on extinguishment, their defilements come to an end.”
Sadā jāgaramānānaṁ, ahorattānusikkhinaṁ; Nibbānaṁ adhimuttānaṁ, atthaṁ gacchanti āsavā.
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What does Dhammapada verse 226 mean?
Verse 226 belongs to chapter 17, Anger (Kodhavagga), which gathers verses 221–234 on anger. It is filed under purity & stains. Read it with the verses around it: the Dhammapada arranges chapters as short runs, not as isolated lines, so verse 225 and verse 227 are part of the same passage.
Fourteen verses on anger. The chapter gives the practical instruction to overcome anger with kindness and to give up what feeds it, and it describes the angry person as one who loses their own good. It also holds the verse about giving rather than taking as the way anger is dissolved.
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