Live by principle, with good conduct,

don’t conduct yourself badly.

For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,

in this world and the next.

Look upon the world

as a bubble

or a mirage,

then the King of Death won’t see you.

Come, see this world decked out

like a fancy royal chariot.

Here fools founder,

but the discerning are not chained.

He who once was heedless,

but turned to heedfulness,

shines upon this world

like the moon freed from clouds.

Someone whose bad deed

is supplanted by the good,

shines upon this world,

like the moon freed from clouds.

Blind is the world,

few are those who clearly see.

Only a handful go to heaven,

like a bird freed from a net.

Swans fly by the sun’s path,

psychic sages fly through space.

The attentive leave the world,

having vanquished Māra with his legions.

When a personage, spurning the hereafter,

transgresses in just one thing—

lying—

there is no evil they would not do.