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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Rejoices here and afterwards

Idha nandati, pecca nandati, katapunno ubhayattha nandati.
"punnam me katan" ti nandati bhiyyo nandatisuggatim gato.

(One who has done good deeds rejoices here and rejoices afterwards too; he rejoices in both places. Thinking "I have done good deeds" he rejoices, he rejoices all the more having gone to a happy existence. Dhammapada, v. 18.)