Uttarajjhayana 7

7.1

jahāesaṃ samuddissa koi posejja elayaṃ |
oyaṇaṃ javasaṃ dejjā posejjā vi sayaṃgaṇe ||

Just as someone, intending [it] for a guest, might nourish a ram; / he would give it cooked rice and grass, and fatten it in his own courtyard.

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;

7.2

tao se puṭṭhe parivūḍhe jāyamee mahodare |
pīṇie viule dehe āesaṃ parikaṃkhae ||

Then, well fed, stout, having grown fat with a large belly, / plump and with a broad body, it awaits the guest.

7.3

jāva na ei āese tāva jīvai se duhī |
aha pattaṃmi āese sīsaṃ chettūṇa bhujjaī ||

As long as the guest does not come, so long the miserable [ram] lives; / but when the guest arrives, having cut off its head, it is eaten.

7.4

jahā khalu se urabbhe āesāe samīhie |
evaṃ bāle ahammiṭṭhe īhaī narayāuyaṃ ||

Just as indeed that sheep is intended for a guest, / even so the fool, devoted to unrighteousness, seeks a lifespan in hell.

7.5

hiṃse bāle musāvāī addhāṇaṃmi vilovae |
annadattahare teṇe māī kaṇhuhare saḍhe ||

Violent, foolish, lying, robbing on the highway, / taking what belongs to others, a thief, deceitful, malicious, rogish,

7.6

itthīvisayagiddhe ya mahāraṃbhapariggahe |
bhuṃjamāṇe suraṃ maṃsaṃ parivūḍhe paraṃdame ||

greedy for sensual pleasures with women, possessing great enterprise and possessions, / consuming liquor and meat, stout, subduing others,

7.7

ayakakkarabhoī ya tuṃdille ciyalohie |
āuyaṃ narae kaṃkhe jahāesaṃ va elae ||

eating roasted meat, pot-bellied, blood-smeared, / he awaits a lifespan in hell, like the ram [awaiting] the guest.

7.8

āsanaṃ sayanaṃ jāṇaṃ vittaṃ kāme ya bhuṃjiyā |
dussāhaḍaṃ ghanaṃ hiccā bahuṃ saṃciṇiyā rayaṃ ||

Having enjoyed seats, beds, vehicles, wealth, and sensual pleasures, / having abandoned the wealth gathered with difficulty, having accumulated much dust [of karma]—

7.9

tao kammagurū jaṃtū paccuppannaparāyaṇe |
aya vva āgayāese maraṇaṃtaṃmi soyaī ||

Then the creature, heavy with karma, devoted solely to the present,
when the end comes, grieves at the moment of death, like a [fattened] ram arriving at the slaughterhouse.

7.10

tao āuparikkhīṇe cuyā dehā vihiṃsagā |
āsuriyaṃ disaṃ bālā gacchaṃti avasā tamaṃ ||

Then, when their lifespan is exhausted, departed from the body, the violent fools,
helpless, go to the dark realm of the Asuras.

Then the sinner who has been killing living beings, at the end of his life falls from his state, and against his will he goes to the world of the Asuras, to the dark place.

7.11

jahā kāginie heuṃ sahassaṃ hārae naro |
apatthaṃ aṃbagaṃ bhoccā rāyā rajjaṃ tu hārae ||

Just as a man would lose a thousand [coins] for the sake of a kakinī,
[or] having eaten a forbidden mango, a king would lose his kingdom;

7.12

evaṃ mānussagā kāmā devakāmāṇa aṃtie |
sahassaguṇiyā bhujjo āuṃ kāmā ya divviyā ||

Even so are human pleasures compared to celestial pleasures:
a thousandfold greater, furthermore, are celestial lifespan and pleasures.

7.13

anegavāsānauyā jā sā pannavao ṭhiī |
jāni jīyaṃti dummehā ūṇe vāsasayāue ||

A lifespan lasting many times ninety years is the duration [in heaven] for the wise,
which fools exchange for a lifespan of less than a hundred years.

7.14

jahā ya tinni vaṇiyā mūlaṃ ghettūṇa niggayā |
ego'ttha lahaī lāhaṃ ego mūleṇa āgao ||

Just as three merchants set out taking capital;
one of them makes a profit, one returns with his capital,

7.15

ego mūlaṃ pi hārittā āgao tattha vāṇio |
vavahāre uvamā esā evaṃ dhamme viyāṇaha ||

And one merchant returns there having lost even his capital;
this is a parable from worldly trade, understand Dharma in this way.

7.16

mānusattaṃ bhave mūlaṃ lābho devagaī bhave |
mūlaccheeṇa jīvāṇaṃ naragatirikkhattaṇaṃ dhuvaṃ ||

Human existence is the capital; attainment of the divine realm is the profit;
by the loss of capital, souls are certain to become hell-beings or animals.

7.17

duhao gaī bālassa āvaī vahamūliyā |
devattaṃ mānusattaṃ ca jaṃ jie lolayāsaḍhe ||

Twofold is the destiny of the fool, disaster whose root is destruction;
[or] godhood and human state, which the greedy, deceitful person has lost.

7.18

tao jie saiṃ hoi duvihaṃ doggaiṃ gae |
dullahā tassa ummajjā addhāe suirādavi ||

Then, once he has gone to the twofold miserable realm of existence,
his emergence from it is difficult, even after a very long time.

7.19

evaṃ jiyaṃ sapehāe tuliyā bālaṃ ca paṃḍiyaṃ |
mūliyaṃ te pavesaṃti mānusaṃ joṇimeṃti je ||

Thus examining life, weighing the fool and the wise man,
those enter upon the capital who attain human birth.

Considering what is at stake, one should weigh (the chances of) the sinner and of the virtuous man (in one's mind).
He who brings back his capital, is (to be compared to) one who is born again as a man.

7.20

vemāyāhiṃ sikkhāhiṃ je narā gihisuvvayā |
uveṃti mānusaṃ joṇiṃ kammasaccā hu pāṇiṇo ||

Men who are observant of the householder's vows with diverse kinds of moral instruction,
attain human birth; indeed, creatures are truly formed by karma.

7.21

jesiṃ tu viulā sikkhā mūliyaṃ te aicchiyā |
sīlavaṃtā savīsesā addīnā jaṃti devayaṃ ||

Those whose training is extensive exceed their capital;
endowed with moral conduct, highly distinguished and free from distress, they go to the divine realm.

7.22

evamaddīnavaṃ bhikkhaṃ agāriṃ ca viyāṇiyā |
kahannu jiccamelikkhaṃ jiccamāṇe na saṃvide? ||

Having thus understood the flawless mendicant life and the householder's life,
how would one who knows what is right not turn away from low birth?

7.23

jahā kusagge udagaṃ samuddeṇa samaṃ miṇe |
evaṃ mānussagā kāmā devakāmāṇa aṃtie ||

As a drop of water on the tip of a blade of kuśa grass compared with the ocean,
even so are human pleasures compared to celestial pleasures.

7.24

kusaggamettā ime kāmā sanniruddhaṃmi āue |
kassa heuṃ purākāuṃ jogakkhemaṃ na saṃvide? ||

These pleasures are merely [like a drop] on the tip of kuśa grass when lifespan is ended;
why should one not secure welfare and peace beforehand?

7.25

iha kāmāṇiyaṭṭassa attaṭṭhe avarajjhaī |
soccā neyāuyaṃ maggaṃ jaṃ bhujjo paribhassaī ||

In this world, one who does not turn away from pleasures fails in his own true purpose;
having heard the path of leading [to liberation], he falls away again from it.

7.26

iha kāmāniyaṭṭassa attaṭṭhe nāvarajjhaī |
pūidehaniroheṇaṃ bhave devi tti me suyaṃ ||

In this world, one who turns away from pleasures does not fail in his own true purpose;
by suppressing the foul body, one becomes a deity—so I have heard.

7.27

iḍḍhī juī jaso vaṇṇo āuṃ suhamanuttaraṃ |
bhujjo jattha manussesu tattha se uvavajjaī ||

Splendor, radiance, fame, beauty, long life, and supreme bliss;
furthermore, where among humans [they are found], there he is reborn.

He will be born among men where there is wealth, beauty, glory, fame, long life, and eminent happiness.

7.28

bālassa passa bālattaṃ ahammaṃ paḍivajjiyā |
ciccā dhammaṃ ahammiṭṭhe narae uvavajjaī ||

Behold the folly of the fool: having undertaken unrighteousness,
having abandoned Dharma, devoted to unrighteousness, he is reborn in hell.

7.29

dhīrassa parassa dhīrattaṃ savvadhammānuvattiṇo |
ciccā adhammaṃ dhammiṭṭhe devesu uvavajjaī ||

Behold the wisdom of the steadfast wise man: following all Dharma,
having abandoned unrighteousness, devoted to Dharma, he is reborn among the gods.

7.30

tuliyāṇa bālabhāvaṃ abālaṃ ceva paṃḍie |
caiūṇa bālabhāvaṃ abālaṃ sevae muni || –tti bemi ||

Having weighed the condition of the fool and that of the non-fool, the wise man,
having abandoned the condition of the fool, the sage cultivates that of the non-fool. — Thus I speak.