The streams flow everywhere;

a weed springs up and remains.

Seeing this weed that has been born,

cut the root with wisdom.

A personage’s joys

flow from senses and cravings.

Seekers of happiness, bent on pleasure,

continue to be reborn and grow old.

People governed by thirst,

crawl about like a trapped rabbit.

Bound and fettered, for a long time

they return to pain time and again.

People governed by thirst,

crawl about like a trapped rabbit.

That’s why one who longs for dispassion

should dispel thirst.

Unsnarled, they set out for the jungle,

then they run right back to the jungle they left behind.

Just look at this individual!

Freed, they run to bondage.