Isibhasiyaim 4

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jassa bhītā palāyanti | jīvā kammāṇugāmiṇo /
tam ev' ādāya gacchanti | kiccā dinnaṃ va vāhiṇī ||1||
vajjiyaputteṇa arahatā isiṇā buitaṃ. ||*1||
dukkhā parivittasanti pāṇā | maraṇā jamma-bhayā ya savva-sattā /
tassovasamaṃ gavesamāṇe | appe ārambha-bhīrue -a satte ||2||
gacchati kammehi se 'ubaddhe, | puṇar-avi āyāti se sayaṃ-kaḍeṇaṃ /
jammaṇa-maraṇāi ae | puṇar-avi āyāti se sa-kamma-sitte ||3||
bīyā ankuraṇṇipphattī | ankurāto puṇo bīyaṃ /
bīe saṃvujjhamāṇammi | ankurass' eva saṃpadā ||4||
bīya-bhūtāṇi kammāṇi | saṃsārammi aṇādie /
moha-mohita-cittassa | tato kammāṇa saṃtatī ||5||
mūla-seke phal' uppattī, | mūla-ghāte hataṃ phalaṃ /
phal' atthī sincatī mūlaṃ, | phala-ghātī -a sincatī ||6||
moha-mūlam aṇivvāṇaṃ | saṃsāre savva-dehiṇaṃ /
moha-mūlāṇi dukkhāṇi | moha-mūlaṃ ca jammaṇaṃ ||7||
dukkha-mūlaṃ ca saṃsāre | aṇṇāṇeṇa samajjitaṃ /
migāri vva sar' uppattī | haṇe kammāṇi mūlato ||8||
evaṃ se buddhe ... -o puṇar-avi icc-atthaṃ havvam āgacchati tti bemi. ||*2||
|| ii biiyaṃ vajjiputt' ajjhayaṇaṃ. ||2||

That of which they are afraid and flee, / living beings bound by karma,
carrying that very thing along they go, / as a river carries what has been thrown into it.
—Thus spoke Vajjiyaputta, the arhat, the seer.
Living beings tremble at suffering; / all living beings fear death and birth.
Seeking its pacification, / rare is the being that fears violent activity.
Bound by his karmas he goes, / and by his own doing he comes back again;
experiencing births and deaths, / drenched in his own karma he comes back again.
From the seed comes the production of the sprout; / from the sprout, again, the seed.
When the seed is preserved, / there is the success of the sprout itself.
Karmas are seed-like / in beginningless saṃsāra.
For one whose mind is deluded by delusion, / from that arises the continuity of karmas.
When the root is watered, fruit arises; / when the root is struck down, the fruit is destroyed.
He who desires fruit waters the root; / he who destroys the fruit waters [it not].
Rooted in delusion is non-extinction / in saṃsāra for all embodied beings.
Rooted in delusion are sufferings, / and rooted in delusion is birth.
And the root of suffering in saṃsāra / is accumulated through ignorance.
Just as the lion destroys the source of the arrows, / he should destroy karmas from the root.
Thus such an enlightened one […] does not again quickly return to this state—thus I say.
|| Thus the second chapter, on Vajjiyaputta. ||2