"No repose as long as life lasts; the great burden 4 of duty is heavy like a load of iron, which is difficult to be carried, O son. (35)

"As it is difficult to cross the heavenly Ganges, or to swim against the current, or to swim with one's arms over the sea, so it is difficult to get over the ocean of duties. (36)

"Self-control is untasteful like a mouthful of sand, and to practise penance is as difficult as to walk on the edge of a sword. (37)

"It is difficult (always to observe the rules of) right conduct with one's eyes for ever open like (those of) a snake , O son; it is difficult to eat iron grains, as it were. (38)

"As it is very difficult to swallow burning fire, so is it difficult for a young man to live as a Sramana. (39)

"As it is difficult to fill a bag with wind,

so is it difficult for a weak man to live as a Sramana. (40)

"As it is difficult to weigh Mount Mandara in a balance, so it is difficult to live as a Sramana with a steady and fearless mind. (41)

"As it is difficult to swim over the sea with one's arms, so it is difficult for one whose mind is not pacified, (to cross) the ocean of restraint. (42)

"Enjoy the fivefold human pleasures. After you have done enjoying pleasures, O son, you may adopt the Law." (43)

He answered: 'O father and mother, it is even thus as you have plainly told; but in this world nothing is difficult for one who is free from desire. (44)

'An infinite number of times have I suffered dreadful pains of body and mind, repeatedly misery and dangers. (45)

'In the Samsara, which is a mine of dangers and a wilderness of old age and death, I have undergone dreadful births and deaths. (46)

'Though fire be hot here, it is infinitely more so there (viz. in hell) ; in hell I have undergone suffering from heat. (47)

'Though there may be cold here, it is of infinitely greater intensity there; in hell I have undergone suffering from cold. (48)

'An infinite number of times have I been roasted over a blazing fire in an oven, screaming loud, head down and feet aloft. (49)

'In the desert which is like a forest on fire, on the Vagravaluka and the Kadambavaluka rivers, I have been roasted an infinite number of times. (50)

'Being suspended upside down over a boiler, shrieking, with no relation to help me, I was cut to pieces with various saws , an infinite number of times. (51)

'I have suffered agonies when I was fastened with fetters on the huge Salmali tree, bristling with very sharp thorns, and then pushed up and down. (52)

'An infinite number of times have I been crushed like sugar-cane in presses, shrieking horribly, to atone for my sins, great sinner that I was. (53)