He in whom there is truth, virtue, love, restraint, moderation, he who is free from impurity and is wise, he is called an elder. |
He who destroys life, who speaks untruth, who in this world takes what is not given him, who goes to another man's wife. |
He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge. |
He who drinks in the law lives happily with a serene mind: the sage rejoices always in the law, as preached by the elect. |
He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation. |
He who has given up both victory and defeat, he, the contented, is happy. |
He who has no wound on his hand, may touch poison with his hand. |
He who has reached the consummation, who does not tremble, who is without thirst and without sin, he has broken all the thorns of life: this will be his last body. |
He who has tasted the sweetness of solitude and tranquillity, is free from fear and free from sin, while he tastes the sweetness of drinking in the law. |
He who having got rid of the forest (of lust) (i.e. after having reached Nirvâna) gives himself over to forest-life (i.e. to lust), and who, when removed from the forest (i.e. from lust), runs to the forest (i.e. to lust), look at that man! though free, he runs into bondage. |
He who inflicts pain on innocent and harmless persons, will soon come to one of the ten states. |
He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy. |
He who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear. |
He who is without thirst and without affection, who understands the words and their interpretation, who knows the order of letters (those which are before and which are after), he has received his last body, he is called the great sage, the great man. |
He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his food, idle, and weak. |