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167. To lowly quality one should not resort;
With heedlessness one should not live.
To an improper view one should not resort.
And one should not be a “word-augmenter”.
168. One should stand up, not be neglectful,
Follow dhamma, which is good conduct.
One who lives dhamma sleeps at ease
In this world and also in the next.
169. One should follow dhamma, which is good conduct,
Not that which is poor conduct.
One who lives dhamma sleeps at ease
In this world and also in the next.
170. As upon a bubble one would look,
As one would look upon a mirage,
The one considering the world thus,
King Death does not see.
171. Come ye, look at this world –
Like an adorned royal chariot –
Wherein childish ones are immersed;
No clinging there is among those who really know.
172. And who having been heedless formerly
But later is heedless not,
He this world illumines
Like the moon set free from a cloud.
173. Whose bad deed done
Is covered by what is wholesome,
He this world illumines
Like the moon set free from a cloud.
174. This world has become blinded, as it were.
Few here see insightfully.
Like a bird set free from a net,
Few to heaven go.
175. Swans go along the path of the sun
And in the air they go with psychic power.
The wise ones are led from the world.
Having conquered Mara and his cohorts.
176. Of a person who has overstepped one dhamma,
Who speaks falsehood,
Who has turned the back on the world beyond –
There is no wrong that cannot be done.
177. Truly, no misers get to the world of gods.
Certainly, childish ones do not applaud giving.
The wise one gladly approves giving;
Hence indeed is he at ease in the hereafter.
178. Better than sole sovereignty over the earth,
Or the journey to heaven,
Than lordship over all the worlds,
Is the Fruit of Stream Attainment.