3. METTA SUTTA

3. METTA SUTTA ( Metta=Love; Affection; benevolence; eros; agape amour; Loving-kindness. ) Discourse on Love
Introduction
46.	Due to the glorious power of this discourse on Love, spirits dare not disclose the frighful sights.    One who devotes to himself this doctrine day and night diligently.
47.	sleeps soundly and does not see any nightmare when asleep.    Oh thou! Let us recite this doctrine endowed with such and other merits.
48.	He who is clever in the benefaction and who has anticipated in the attainment of the state of Perfect Tranquility    must work to be efficient, right, upright, discussable, gentle, and humble,
49.	Contented, well-bred, less responsible, of fugal livelihood, serene in faculties, prudent, modest, not hanker after the families.
50.	He must not commit even the slightest sin for which the wise men might censure.    He must contemplate thus:- may all sentient beings be cheerful and be endowed with happy secured life.
51.	Whatever breathing beings there may be the frail ones or the firm creatures, with no exception tall or stout, short or meduim-sized, thin or fat,
52.	Those which are seen or those unseen those who are dwelling far or near those who are already born or those still seeking to become yet.    May all these beings be endowed with happy-life.
53.	Let not one be angry with another, let him not despise anyone in any place    By means of physical and verbal provocation or by frustrated enmity,    Let one not wish another's suffering.
54.	Just like a mother would protect her baby, the only child, even so towards with her lifeall beings    Let one cultivate the (Agape) boundless spirit of love.
55.	Let him radiate the boundless of love rays towards the entire world, to the above, below, and across unhindered, without malice and enmity.
56.	While standing, walking, or reclining, as long awake without sloth, sitting, as he be    Let him devote himself to this mindfulness.     This is called in this religion as "Noble Living" (Holy life).
57.	If the meditator, without falling into wrong view (egoism), be virtuous, and endowed with perfect insight, has expelled passion in sensual desires,    he will surely come never again to be born in any womb. The end of Metta-sutta
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