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21. The path to the Deathless is awareness;
Unawareness, the path of death.
They who are aware do not die;
They who are unaware are as dead.
22. Having known this distinctly,
Those who are wise in awareness,
Rejoice in awareness,
Delighted i the pasture of the noble ones.
23. Those meditators, persevering,
Forever firm on enterprise,
Those steadfast ones touch Nibbana,
Incomparable release from bonds
24. Fame increases for the one who stands alert,
Mindful, and of pure deeds;
Who with due consideration acts, restrained,
Who lives dhamma, being aware.
25. By standing alert, by awareness,
By restraint and control too,
The intelligent one could make an island
That a flood does not overwhelm.
26. People deficient in wisdom, childish ones,
Engage in unawareness.
But the wise one guards awareness
Like the greatest treasure.
27. Engage not in unawareness,
Nor in intimacy with sensual delight.
Meditating, the one who is aware
Attains extensive ease.
28. When the wise one by awareness expels unawareness,
Having ascended the palace of wisdom,
He, free from sorrow, steadfast,
The sorrowing folk observes, the childish,
As one standing on a mountain
[Observes] those standing on the ground below.
29. Among those unaware, the one aware,
Among the sleepers, the wide-awake,
The one with great wisdom moves on,
As a racehorse who leaves behind a nag.
30. By awareness, Maghavan
To supremacy among the gods arose.
Awareness they praise;
Always censured is unawareness.
31. The bhikkhu who delights in awareness,
Who sees in unawareness the fearful,
Goes, burning, like a fire,
The fetter subtle and gross.
32. The bhikkhu who delights in awareness,
Who sees in unawareness the fearful –
He is not liable to suffer fall;
In Nibbana’s presence is such a one.