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THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
"Whether it be dry food or wet he eats, Let him to full repletion never eat. The good recluse goes forth in emptiness, And keeps to moderation in his food. If but four mouthfuls or but five he get, Let him drink water. For what cares the man With mind on Arahatship fixed for ease 1!"'
Here ends the Fifth Chapter.
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VII, 5, 23.
1 Thera Gâthâ 982, 983. The next verse but one has been already quoted above; p. 366 of the Pâli; and these recur at Gâtaka II, 293, 294.
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