[273] 4. Bhikkhus, there are these three fires. What three? The fire of lust (rāgaggi), the fire of hatred (dosaggi), and the fire of delusion (mohaggi). These, bhikkhus, are the three fires.
The fire of lust burns mortals
who are impassioned, infatuated with sensual pleasures (kāma);
but the fire of hatred burns men of ill will (byāpanna)
who destroy living beings;
and the fire of delusion burns the bewildered,
unskilled in the noble Dhamma.
Not knowing these fires,
people who delight in personal existence (sakkāya)
swell hell (niraya), the animal wombs,
the asura realm and the sphere of ghosts (pittivisaya),
not freed from the bond of Māra.
But those who are devoted day and night
to the teaching of the Fully Self-Enlightened One (sammāsambuddha) —
they extinguish the fire of lust,
constantly perceiving the foul (asubha);
those supreme among men extinguish
the fire of hatred with loving-kindness (mettā),
and the fire of delusion with wisdom (paññā),
the wisdom that leads to penetration.
Having extinguished [the fires], those sagacious ones,
untiring day and night,
attain final Nibbāna without remainder;
without remainder they have passed beyond suffering (dukkha).
Seers of the noble [truths], masters of knowledge (vedagū),
wise ones, having rightly understood,
having directly known the destruction of birth (jāti),
come no more to renewed existence.
The fourth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.