[58] 7. 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 only son of a certain lay follower (upāsaka) — dear and agreeable — had died. Then many lay followers, with wet clothes and wet hair, approached the Blessed One in the middle of the day; having approached and paid homage to the Blessed One, they sat down at one side. When those lay followers were seated at one side, the Blessed One said this to them: "Why is it, lay followers, that you have come here in the middle of the day with wet clothes and wet hair?"
When this was said, that lay follower said to the Blessed One: "Blessed One, my only son, dear and agreeable, has died; we have come here in the middle of the day with wet clothes and wet hair."
Then the Blessed One, having understood the meaning of this, uttered on that occasion this inspired utterance (udāna):
"Bound to the enjoyment of what is dear (piyarūpa),
hosts of devas and the many folk of humankind,
afflicted with misery, worn away,
come under the sway of the King of Death.
But those who, heedful by day and by night,
abandon what is dear —
they indeed dig up the root of misery,
Death's bait, so hard to overcome."
The seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.