法苑珠林 21.32

21.32

Faith is the seed; / austere practice is the seasonal rain. / Wisdom is the timely yoke; / a sense of shame (hrī and apatrāpya) is the pole. / Right mindfulness guards itself: / this is the skillful driver. / Guarding and storing the bodily and verbal actions, / knowing food and storing it within, / truthfulness is the straight mount, / delight in dwelling is resting, / vigor is [eradicating] the fallow and overgrown, / tranquility is speedy advance. / Going straight forward without turning back, / one reaches the place of sorrowlessness. / A cultivator who plows like this / attains the fruit of nectar (amṛta); / a cultivator who plows like this / does not return to undergo the states of existence.