Udanavarga 3.98-99

3.98

「如象名護財，猛害難禁制，
繫靽不與食，而猶慕逸象。
本意為純行，及常行所安，
悉捨降結使，如鈎制象調。
樂道不放逸，能常自護心，
是為拔身苦，如象出于陷。

"Like the elephant named Dhanapāla, / Fierce, harmful, and hard to restrain; / Bound with halters and denied food, / Yet still yearning for the wild elephants. / Originally intending pure conduct, / And finding peace in habitual practice, / One abandons all and subdues the fetters, / As a hook restrains an elephant until tamed. / Delighting in the Way and unremiss, / Able always to guard one's own mind, / This is pulling oneself out of suffering, / As an elephant emerges from a pit.

“Like the elephant which is called “U-ts'ai" (Dhammapālaka?) is difficult to hold and to tame, and when bound does not eat a morsel, and only longs to be free; so this mind of mine, in its natural state, went wandering at large, and ever seeking a resting-place, but now I have subdued it, and I can hold it, as the master with the hook holds the elephant. To be glad in the possession of Reason (Bōdhi), and not to let it escape, to be able at any time to hold in and control the mind, this is to be saved from bodily suffering, as the elephant escapes from the ditch into which he has fallen.”

3.99

「雖為常調，如彼新馳，亦最善象，
不如自調。彼不能適，人所不至，
唯自調者，能到調方。」

"Though one be constantly tamed, / Like those newly trained steeds, / Or even the very best of elephants, / None equals self-taming. / They cannot reach / Where humans have not gone; / Only the self-tamed / Can reach the realm of the tamed."