Māra:
“Why don’t you approve of birth?
One who is born
enjoys sensual pleasures.
Who on earth
ever persuaded you:
‘Nun, don’t approve of birth’?”
Sister Cālā:
“For one who is born
there’s death.
One who is born
sees pain.
It’s a binding, a flogging, a torment.
That’s why one shouldn’t approve
of birth.
The Awakened One taught me the Dhamma
—the overcoming of birth—
for the abandoning of all pain,
he established me in
the truth.
But beings who have come to form
& those with a share in the formless,
if they don’t discern cessation,
return to becoming-again.”
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