Some speak with malicious intent, while others speak set on truth. When disputes come up <j>a sage does not get involved, which is why they’ve no barrenness at all.

How can you transcend your own view when you’re led by preference, dogmatic in belief? Inventing your own undertakings, you’d speak according to your notion.

Some personages, unasked, tell others of their own precepts and vows. They have an ignoble nature, <j>say those who are skilled, since they speak on themselves of their own accord.

A mendicant, peaceful, quenched, never boasts “thus am I” of their precepts. They have a noble nature, say those who are skilled, who have no pretensions <j>about anything in the world.