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Follow not the vulgar way;
live not in heedlessness;
hold not false views;
linger not long in worldly existence.
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Arise! Do not be heedless!
Lead a righteous life.
The righteous live happily
both in this world and the next.
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Lead a righteous life;
lead not a base life.
The righteous live happily
both in this world and the next.
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One who looks upon the world
as a bubble and a mirage,
him the King of Death sees not.
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Come! Behold this world,
which is like a decorated royal chariot.
Here fools flounder,
but the wise have no attachment to it.
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He who having been heedless
is heedless no more,
illuminates this world
like the moon freed from clouds.
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He, who by good deeds
covers the evil he has done,
illuminates this world
like the moon freed from clouds.
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Blind is the world;
here only a few possess insight.
Only a few,
like birds escaping from the net,
go to realms of bliss.
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Swans fly on the path of the sun;
men pass through the air by psychic powers;
the wise are led away from the world
after vanquishing Mara and his host.
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For a liar who has violated
the one law (of truthfulness)
who holds in scorn the hereafter,
there is no evil that he cannot do.
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Truly, misers fare not to heavenly realms;
nor, indeed, do fools praise generosity.
But the wise man rejoices in giving,
and by that alone does he become happy hereafter.
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Better than sole sovereignty over the earth,
better than going to heaven,
better even than lordship over all the worlds
is the supramundane Fruition of Stream Entrance.