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7. Rise up and sit, Kātiyāna!
Do not be given to much sleep; be wakeful.
Let not the King of Death (Maccurājā), the kinsman of the heedless (pamattabandhu),
defeat you in your indolence, as if by trickery (kūṭa).
Just as is the surge of the great ocean,
so do birth (jāti) and aging (jarā) sweep over you;
therefore make for yourself a good island,
for no other shelter is found for you here.
For the Teacher has conquered this path (magga),
which has passed beyond attachment (saṅga), beyond the peril of birth and aging;
heedful through the earlier and the later hours of the night,
apply yourself; make firm your endeavour.
Cast off your former bonds —
you who wear the outer robe (saṅghāṭi), whose head is shaven by the razor, who eat almsfood:
do not devote yourself to delight in play, nor to sleep;
meditate, Kātiyāna.
Meditate, win the victory, Kātiyāna!
You are well skilled in the path to security from bondage (yogakkhema);
having attained the unsurpassed purity (visuddhi),
you shall be fully quenched (parinibbāhisi), as a flame by water.
A lamp of feeble beam
is bent down by the wind, as a creeper is;
even so do you, paying no heed [to him],
shake off Māra, O you of Inda's clan.
Then, rid of passion amid feelings (vedayita),
await your time right here, grown cool.
The Elder Kātiyāna.
[Variant readings noted in the Siam Raṭṭha edition: 1 Sī., Yu.: "sayathāpi." 2 Ma., Yu.: "va." 3 Ma.: "jhāya."]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.