Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

Through one all are known, through one all are also seen

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.