1At one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.

Now at that time that mendicant fell asleep during the day’s meditation. The deity haunting that forest had compassion for that mendicant, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse:

2“Get up, mendicant! Why lie down?
What’s the point in your sleeping?
What slumber can there be for those afflicted,
injured, pierced by an arrow?

3You should amplify the faith
that led you to go forth
from the home life to homelessness.
Don’t fall under the sway of slumber.”

4“Sensual pleasures are impermanent and unstable,
but idiots still fall for them.
Among those who are bound, they’re free and unattached:
why bother a renunciate?

5By removing desire and greed,
by going beyond ignorance,
that knowledge has been perfectly cleansed:
why bother a renunciate?

6By breaking ignorance with knowledge,
by the ending of defilements,
they’re sorrowless, unstressed:
why bother a renunciate?

7Energetic, resolute,
always staunchly vigorous,
aspiring to extinguishment:
why bother a renunciate?”

1Ekaṁ samayaṁ aññataro bhikkhu kosalesu vihārati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.

Tena kho pana samayena so bhikkhu divāvihāragato supati. Atha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tassa bhikkhuno anukampikā atthakāmā taṁ bhikkhuṁ saṁvejetukāmā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā taṁ bhikkhuṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi: 

2"Uṭṭhehi bhikkhu kiṁ sesi,
ko attho supitena te;
Āturassa hi kā niddā,
sallaviddhassa ruppato.

3Yāya saddhāya pabbajito,
agārasmānagāriyaṁ;
Tameva saddhāṁ brūhehi,
mā niddāya vasaṁ gamī"ti.

4"Aniccā addhuvā kāmā,
yesu mandova mucchito;
Baddhesu muttaṁ asitaṁ,
kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.

5Chandarāgassa vinayā,
avijjāsamatikkamā;
Taṁ ñāṇaṁ paramodānaṁ,
kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.

6Chetvā avijjāṁ vijjāya,
āsavānaṁ parikkhayā;
Asokaṁ anupāyāsaṁ,
kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape.

7Āraddhavīriyaṁ pahitattaṁ,
Niccaṁ daḷhaparakkamaṁ;
Nibbānaṁ abhikaṅkhantaṁ,
Kasmā pabbajitaṁ tape"ti.