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thag.2.19 Theragatha

Nanda

Because of focusing on the wrong things,
I was addicted to ornamentation.
I was vain, fickle,
racked by desire for pleasures of the senses.
But with the help of the Buddha,
the kinsman of the Sun, so skilled in means,
I practiced properly and extracted
attachment to continued existence from my mind.