[785] Then the deity (devatā) inhabiting that forest thicket, having compassion for that bhikkhu, desiring his good, and wishing to stir him to a sense of urgency (saṃvega), approached that bhikkhu; and having approached, addressed that bhikkhu in verse:
"You dwell all alone in the forest,
like a log cast away in the woods;
yet many are they who envy you for that,
as beings in hell envy one bound for heaven."
Then that bhikkhu, stirred by that deity, acquired a sense of urgency.
The Sajjhāya Sutta, Tenth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.