आहार निद्रा भय मैथुनं च समानमेतत्पशुभिर्नराणाम् ।

धर्मो हि तेषामधिको विशेषो धर्मेण हीनाः पशुभिः समानः ॥ 886

 

Ahara nidra bhaya maithunam cha samanametatpashirnaranam ।

Dharmo hi teshamadhiko vishesho dharmena hinah pashubhih samanah ॥

 

Food, sleep, fear and sex are qualities common to humans and beasts. Dharma is the differing quality, one who does not follow it is equaivalent to a beast.

 

प्राप्तव्यमर्थं लभते मनुष्यॊ देवोऽपि तं लङ्घयितुं न शक्तः ।

तस्मान्न शोचामि न विस्मयो मे यदस्मदीयं न हि तत्परेषाम् ॥ 887

 

Praptavyartham labhate manushyo devo api tam langhayitum na shaktah ।

Tasmanna shochami na vismayo me yadasmadiyam na hi tatparesham ॥

 

A man gets wealth that is due to him and even Gods cannot take it away.

Therefore I do not think or wonder that whatever is mine ie mine not someone else’s.

 

अनाद्यन्ता तु सा तृष्णा अन्तर्देहगता नृणाम् ।

विनाशयति संभूता अयोनिज इवानल: ॥ 888

 

Anadyanta tu sa trushnah antardehagatā nrunam ।
Vinashayati saṃbhutā ayonija ivanalah ॥

Greed, residing in the body without beginning or end,

destroys men like fire which grows on its own.

 

मातेव रक्षति पितेव हिते नियुङ्क्ते कान्तेव चाभिरामयत्यपनीय दुःखम् ।
कीर्तिं च दिक्षु वितनोति तनोति लक्ष्मीम् किं किं न साधयति कल्पलतेव विद्या ॥ 889

Mateva rakshati piteva hite niyunkte kanteva chabhiramayatyapanīya duḥkham ।
Kirtiṃ ca dikshu vitanoti tanoti lakshmīm kiṃ kiṃ na sadhayati kalpalateva vidya ॥

Like a mother it protects. Like a father it leads to goodness. Like a lover it delights, having dispelled misery. It spreads renown in all directions and increases fortune.
What can it not accomplish? Knowledge is like a wish-fullfilling herb.

 

न तु अहं कामये राज्यं न स्वर्गं नापुनर्भवम् ।

कामये दु:खतप्तानां प्राणिनाम् आर्तिनाशनम् ॥ 890 

 

Na tu aham kamaye rajyam na svargam napunarbhavam ।

Kamaye dukhhataptanam praninam artinashanam ॥

 

I do not desire kingdom, nor the heaven nor liberation. I have only one

desire and that is to remove the misery of all the living beings who are suffering.