A mindful one who develops

limitless love

weakens the fetters,

seeing the ending of attachments.

Loving just one creature with a hateless heart

makes you a true person.

Sympathetic for all creatures,

a noble one creates abundant merit.

The royal potentates conquered this land

and traveled around sponsoring sacrifices—

horse sacrifice, human sacrifice,

the sacrifices of the ‘casting of the yoke-pin’, the ‘royal soma drinking’, and the ‘unimpeded’.

These are not worth a sixteenth part

of the mind developed with love,

as all the constellations of stars

aren’t worth a sixteenth part of the moon’s light.

Don’t kill or cause others to kill,

don’t conquer or encourage others to conquer,

with love for all sentient beings,

you’ll have no enmity for anyone.”