One who speaks untruthfully ends up in hell, and also he who having done something, denies he did it. Having passed on, both these men of base conduct become equal in the hereafter.

There are many with an ochre robe round their necks who are of an unvirtuous moral nature and are unrestrained [in conduct]. Being odious on account of their unvirtuous deeds, they are reborn in hell.

It is better that an unvirtuous man, unrestrained [in conduct], eats an iron ball glowing like blazing fire than he eats the country’s almsfood.

The man negligently applied [to the practice] who pursues another’s wife meets with four states: the accumulation of demerit; insomnia; thirdly, criticism; fourthly, hell. [There is also] the accumulation of demerit; an odious rebirth; and for the frightened man and woman a delight that is insignificant; and the king inflicts a serious penalty. Therefore a man should not pursue another’s wife.

Just as kusa grass that is wrongly grasped cuts one’s hand, likewise the ascetic life that is wrongly handled drags one to hell.

Whatever [spiritually wholesome] practice is slackly [undertaken]; and whatever [noble] practice is defiled; and whatever religious life is [lived] odiously: none are of any great fruit.

If there is something to be done one should do it. One should resolutely indeed apply oneself [to the practice]. The ascetic who is slackly applied [to spiritually wholesome practices] all the more covers himself with dust [i.e. spiritual defilements].

A bad deed is better left undone. One later regrets a bad deed. A good deed is better done, which having done it one does not [later] regret it.

Just as a border city is safeguarded within and without, likewise keep watch over yourself. May the [rare] opportunity [to live the religious life] not pass you by, because those who miss the opportunity grieve when consigned to hell.

[Nigaṇṭha ascetics] are conscience-stricken about what is not shameful [i.e. eating dust fallen into their almsbowls]. [Naked ascetics] are not conscience-stricken about what is shameful [i.e. going naked]. By upholding wrong views [of reality] [such] beings are reborn in the plane of misery.

Seeing a danger [to one’s spiritual purity through eating dust] where there is no danger; and seeing no danger [to one’s spiritual purity by going naked] where there is a danger, by upholding wrong views [of reality] [such] beings are reborn in the plane of misery.

Thinking there is wrongdoing where there is innocence, and seeing innocence where there is wrongdoing, by upholding wrong views [of reality] beings are reborn in the plane of misery.

Knowing wrongdoing as wrongdoing, and innocence as innocence, by undertaking right views [of reality] beings are reborn in the realm of happiness.