Linked Discourses 1.58

1. Old Age

Deviation

“What’s declared to be a deviation?

What is ending day and night?

What’s the stain of chastity?

What’s the waterless bath?”

“Lust is declared to be a deviation.

Youth is ending day and night.

Women are the stain of chastity,

to which this generation clings.

Fervor and chastity

are the waterless bath.”