[150] 4. Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī, in the Jetavana, Anāthapiṇḍika's Park. Now on that occasion the people in Sāvatthī were for the most part attached to sensual pleasures; impassioned, greedy, tied, infatuated, engrossed, blinded, and become utterly intoxicated, they dwelt in sensual pleasures. Then, in the morning, the Blessed One dressed and, taking his bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for alms. The Blessed One saw those people in Sāvatthī, for the most part attached to sensual pleasures — greedy, tied, engrossed, blinded, and become utterly intoxicated — dwelling in sensual pleasures.
Then the Blessed One, having understood this matter, on that occasion uttered this inspired utterance (udāna):
Blinded by sensual pleasures, covered over by the net,
shrouded by the covering of craving (taṇhā),
bound by the Kinsman of the Heedless [Māra],
like fish in the mouth of a trap,
they go to aging and death,
as a suckling calf goes to its mother.
The fourth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.