Uttarajjhayana 197.1.41_2

197.1.41_2

jahā tulāe toleuṃ | dukkaro mandaro girī /
tahā nihuyanīsaṃkaṃ | dukkaraṃ samaṇattaṇaṃ ||41||

"As it is difficult to weigh Mount Mandara in a balance, so it is difficult to live as a Sramana with a steady and fearless mind. (41)
"As it is difficult to swim over the sea with one's arms, so it is difficult for one whose mind is not pacified, (to cross) the ocean of restraint. (42)
"Enjoy the fivefold human pleasures. After you have done enjoying pleasures, O son, you may adopt the Law." (43)
He answered: 'O father and mother, it is even thus as you have plainly told; but in this world nothing is difficult for one who is free from desire. (44)
'An infinite number of times have I suffered dreadful pains of body and mind, repeatedly misery and dangers. (45)
'In the Samsâra, which is a mine of dangers and a wilderness of old age and death, I have undergone dreadful births and deaths. (46)
'Though fire be hot here, it is infinitely more so there (viz. in hell); in hell I have undergone suffering from heat. (47)
'Though there may be cold here, it is of infinitely greater intensity there; in hell I have undergone suffering from cold. (48)
'An infinite number of times have I been roasted over a blazing fire in an oven, screaming loud, head down and feet aloft. (49)
'In the desert which is like a forest on fire, on the Vagravâlukâ and the Kadambavâlukâ rivers, I have been roasted an infinite number of times. (50)
'Being suspended upside down over a boiler, shrieking, with no relation to help me, I was cut to pieces with various saws, an infinite number of times. (51)