Uttarajjhayana 128.1.1_6

128.1.1_6

U/7 elayaṃ saptamam adhyayanam /
jahāesaṃ samuddissa | koi posejja elayaṃ /
oyaṇaṃ javasaṃ dejjā | posejjā vi sayaṃgaṇe ||1||

As somebody, to provide for (the arrival of) a guest, brings up a young ram, gives it rice and gram, and brings it up in his yard; (1)
Then when it is grown up and big, fat and of a large belly, fattened and of a plump body, it is ready for the guest. (2)
As long as no guest comes, the poor (animal) lives; but as soon as a guest arrives, its head is cut off, and it is eaten. (3)
As this ram is well treated for the sake of a guest, even so an ignorant, great sinner longs (as it were) for life in hell. (4)
An ignorant man kills, tells lies, robs on the highway, steals foreign goods, deceives, (always thinking of some one) whom he could plunder, the villain. (5)
He is desirous of women and pleasures, he enters on undertakings and business, drinks liquor, eats meat, becomes strong, a subduer of foes. (6)
He eats crisp goats’ meat, his belly grows, and his veins swell with blood--but he gains nothing but life in hell, just as the ram is only fed to be killed for the sake of a guest. (7)
After having enjoyed pleasant seats, beds, carriages, riches, and pleasures, after having squandered his wealth which he had so much trouble in gaining, and after having committed many sins, he will, under the burden of his Karman, and believing only in the visible world, be grieved in the hour of death like the ram at the arrival of a guest. (8, 9)