[765] "Sensual pleasures (kāmā) are impermanent, unstable,
and in them only the dullard is infatuated;
freed, unattached amid the bound —
why should [sleep] torment one gone forth?
Through the removal of desire and lust (chandarāga),
through the transcending of ignorance (avijjā),
that knowledge (ñāṇa) is supremely pure —
why should [sleep] torment one gone forth?
Having broken ignorance by true knowledge (vijjā),
with the utter destruction of the taints (āsava),
sorrowless (asoka), free from despair (anupāyāsa) —
why should [sleep] torment one gone forth?
With energy (vīriya) aroused, resolute,
ever firm in exertion,
aspiring to Nibbāna —
why should [sleep] torment one gone forth?"
The Third: The Kassapagotta Sutta.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.