For one whose mind is not soaked with lust, whose heart is not struck by hatred, who has abandoned both merit and evil, who is awake — there is no fear.
Knowing this body to be like a jar, and fortifying this mind like a fortress, one should fight Māra with the weapon of wisdom, guard what has been won, and not linger.
Those overcome by craving, bound by rites and vows, practising harsh austerities for a hundred years — their minds are not well liberated; being base in nature, they do not reach the far shore.
One who does evil deeds and cheats his brothers and parents of their property has a corrupt mind; he does not prosper, and even the gods do not honour him.
A monk who meditates, whose mind is liberated, having known the rise and fall of the world, of good heart, not dependent on defilements, with that as his reward, may expect the purity of his mind.
One whose mind does not shrink back, whose heart is not downcast, who develops wholesome states to attain security from bondage, may gradually attain the destruction of all fetters.