Any painful state in this world
or in any other
is due to ignorance.
For lack of knowledge, here is the world with its gods,
anchored to names and forms,
one imagines that this is the reality.
As one standing on the cliff of a mountain sees all the people below,
so the wise man who sees all, sees, free from pain,
the people immersed in evil.
Hear this, ye who are awake!
And ye who sleep, wake up!
from
“So it was said”
