Blinded by sensuality
covered by the net,
veiled with the veil of craving,
bound by the Kinsman of the heedless,1
like fish in the mouth of a trap,2
they go to aging & death,
like a milk-drinking calf to its mother.
Notes
1. Māra. There is an alliterative play here between the word “bound” (bandhā) and “by the Kinsman” (bandhunā).
2. This verse, up to this point, is identical with a verse attributed to Ven. Rāhula in Thag 4:8 (verse 297 in the PTS edition).
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