Revata's Farewell
Thag 14.1
translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Since I went forth
from home into homelessness,
I haven't known
an ignoble, aversive resolve.
"May these beings
be destroyed,
be slaughtered,
fall into pain" —
I've not known this resolve
in this long, long time.
But I have known good will,
unlimited,
fully developed,
nurtured step after step,
as taught by the One
Awake:
to all, a friend;
to all, a comrade;
for all beings, sympathetic.
And I develop a mind of good will,
delighting in non-malevolence — always.
Unvanquished, unshaken,
I gladden the mind.
I develop the sublime abiding,
not frequented by
the lowly.

Attaining no-thinking,
the disciple of the Rightly
Self-awakened One
is endowed with noble silence
straightaway.

As a mountain of rock
is unmoving,
firmly established,
so a monk, with the ending of delusion,
like a mountain, doesn't quake.

To a person without blemish,
constantly in search of what's pure,
a hair-tip of evil
seems a storm cloud.

As a frontier fortress is guarded
within & without,
you should safeguard yourselves.
Don't let the moment
pass you by.

I don't delight in death,
don't delight in living.
I await my time
like a worker his wage.
I don't delight in death,
don't delight in living.
I await my time
mindful, alert.

The Teacher has been served by me;
the Awakened One's bidding, done;
the heavy load, laid down;
the guide to becoming, uprooted.
And the goal for which I went forth
from home life into homelessness
I've reached:
the end
of all fetters.

Attain completion through heedfulness:
that is my message.
So then, I'm about to be
Unbound.
I'm released
everywhere.

Is this a religious text of some sort, if so what religion and is there more context? It reminds of the Gita which I just finished and dam that’s a powerful text but pretty much same message

Thanks again FranLover, your posts are so mind altering.

The title of your post reminded me of a quote from the Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld: “Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfilment.”. Although after reading it through it sounds much deeper then that.