0 At Savatthi.

1 Having stood at one side, Kamada, son of the devas, said this to the Auspicious One:

“Difficult to do, O Auspicious One, very difficult to do, O Auspicious One.”
“But they do even that which is difficult to do,” (O Kamada),
those accomplished in virtue and composed, the sekhas;
“for those gone [forth] into homelessness,
who are self-controlled and contented, happiness comes to be.”

“Difficult to gain, O Auspicious One, namely, contentment.”
“Indeed they gain even that which is difficult to gain,” (O Kamada)
“those who by day and by night;
find delight in the enculturation of the mind,
delighting in mental cessation.”

“Difficult to rein it in, O Auspicious One, namely, the mind.”
“Indeed they rein in even that which is difficult to rein in,” (O Kamada)
“those who delight in calming the faculties;
having cut off the net of death,
the noble ones move on [confidently] O Kamada.”

“The path is uneven and difficult to move on, O Auspicious One.”
“Indeed even that which is uneven and difficult to move on,,
the noble ones move on, O Kamada;”
“the ignoble fall down headfirst onto the uneven path,
[but] the path is even for the noble ones,
for indeed the noble are even among the uneven.”

0 sāvatthiyaṃ

1 ekamantaṃ ṭhito kho kāmado devaputto bhagavantaṃ etadavoca:

dukkaraṃ bhagavā sudukkaraṃ bhagavāti.
dukkaraṃ cāpi karonti (kāmadāti bhagavā),
sekhā sīlasamāhitā;
ṭhitattā anagāriyupetassa,
tuṭṭhi hoti sukhāvahāti.

dullabhā bhagavā yadidaṃ tuṭṭhīti.
dullabhaṃ vāpi labhanti (kāmadāti bhagavā),
cittavūpasame ratā;
yesaṃ divā ca ratto ca,
bhāvanāya rato mano'ti.

dussamādahaṃ bhagavā yadidaṃ cittanti.
dussamādahaṃ vāpi samādahanti(kāmadāti bhagavā),
indriyūpasame ratā;
te chetvā maccuno jālaṃ,
ariyā gacchanti kāmadāti.

duggamo bhagavā visamo maggo'ti.
duggame visame vāpi (bhagavā:),
ariyā gacchanti kāmada;
anariyā visame magge papatanti avaṃsirā;
ariyānaṃ samo maggo,
ariyā hi visame samāti.