Verse 638

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US-P18.229ab ।US-P18.229cd ॥

In plain words

Even when racked with hunger, no one tries to eat poison. An undeluded person, whose hunger is satisfied with delicious food, will never touch it.

Close to the Sanskrit

Even tormented by hunger, one does not desire to eat poison indeed; knowing its nature, an undeluded person whose hunger is destroyed by delicious food does not wish to swallow that.