Uttarajjhayana 6

As many men as there are who are ignorant, all of them are born of suffering; / deluded, they are repeatedly destroyed in the endless cycle of rebirth.

Examining [this], therefore, the wise one, having seen the many paths of rebirth, / should himself seek truth and practice friendliness toward living beings.

"Mother, father, daughter-in-law, brother, wife, and own sons— / they are not able to protect me when I am destroyed by my own karma."

Perceiving this matter, seeing with circumspect faith, / sever greed and attachment, and do not long for former familiarity.

Cattle, horses, jewels and earrings, animals, male and female servants— / having abandoned all these, you will become one who changes form at will.

Immobile and mobile [possessions], wealth, grain, utensils— / when one is tormented by karmas, they are not able to release him from suffering.

Seeing all beings everywhere as oneself, one should cherish life; / one should not kill living beings, turning away from fear and enmity.

Seeing taking [what is not given] as [the cause of] hell, one should not take even a blade of grass; / guarding his own feet with disgust [for evil], he should eat given food.

Here indeed some think that, without renouncing evil, / merely by knowing the ācārya, one is released from all suffering.

Speaking [of it] but not practicing, professing bondage and liberation, / they console themselves by the mere power of speech.

Varied speech does not protect—whence [comes] the discipline of knowledge? / Sunk in evil deeds are the fools who consider themselves wise.

Whatever [beings] are attached to the body, and to complexion and beauty in every way, / in mind, body, and speech—all of them are born of suffering.

They have entered upon a long journey in the endless cycle of rebirth; / therefore, look in all directions, and wander uncareless.

Having raised [the mind] upward from the external, one should never desire [worldly things]; / for the sake of exhausting past karma, one should elevate this body.

Separating oneself from the causes of karma, awaiting his time, he should wander; / having obtained a measure of food and drink that was prepared [for others], he should eat it.

And the self-restrained one should not make a hoard, measuring his defilement; / taking his bowl like a bird [takes its wings], he should wander without attachment.

Circumspect in begging, modest, he should wander without a fixed abode in the village; / uncareless among the careless, he should seek food fallen into the alms-bowl.

Thus he spoke, the possessor of supreme knowledge, the possessor of supreme faith, the bearer of supreme knowledge and faith, / the Arhat Jñātṛputra, the Blessed One, the man of Vaiśālī, has declared. — Thus I say.