[794] Then the deity (devatā) dwelling in that forest thicket, having compassion for those bhikkhus and desiring their good, wishing to stir those bhikkhus to a sense of urgency (saṃvega), approached those bhikkhus and, having approached, addressed them in verses:
"In the past the bhikkhus lived happily, the disciples of Gotama;
desireless, they sought their almsfood; desireless, their lodging.
Having known impermanence in the world, they made an end of suffering (dukkha).
Making themselves hard to support, like village headmen in a village,
they eat and eat and then lie down, infatuated in the houses of others.
Having made reverential salutation (añjali) to the Saṅgha, I here speak of certain ones:
cast off, without a protector, they are even as the dead.
It is with reference to those who dwell heedless that this was spoken by me;
but those who dwell heedful — to them I pay homage."
Then those bhikkhus, stirred by that deity, acquired a sense of urgency.
The Fourteenth: The Padumapuppha Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.