Do not follow mean things.
Do not live in heedlessness.
Do not embrace false views,
Do not be a 'world-upholder'.

Arise! Be not negligent!
Lead a righteous life.
For one who lives a righteous life
Dwells in peace here and hereafter.

By Dharma should one lead one's life
And not embrace corrupted means.
For one who lives a Dharma life
Dwells in peace here and hereafter.

Whoso would look upon the world
Just as one would see a bubble,
And as one would view a mirage-
Him the King of Death finds not.

Come you all and behold this world
Like an ornamented royal chariot,
Wherein the fools are deeply sunk.
But for those who know there is no bond.

Whoso was previously negligent
But afterwards practises vigilance-
He illumines the world here and now
Like the moon emerging from the cloud.

Who by his wholesome deeds
Removes the evil done-
He illumines the workd here and now
Like the moon emerging from the cloud.

Blind is this world,
Few are they who clearly see.
As the birds escaping from a net,
Few are they who go to heaven.

Swans fly on the path of the sun,
Magicians pass through the air.
The wise go forth out of the world,
Having conquered Mara with all his troop.

By him who breaks the fourth precept,
Who at all time speaks untruth,
Who regards not the world beyond,
There is no evil that cannot be done.

Verily, the misers go not to celestial realms.
Fools do not indeed praise liberality.
The wise, however, rejoice in giving
And thereby become happy hereafter.

Than sole sovereignty over the earth,
Than going to celestial worlds,
Than lordship over all the worlds,
Better is the fruit of a Stream-Winner.