[254] **He struggles like a fool (mando va parikissati)**: like a wretch, like one utterly bewildered, he is troubled, he struggles, he is defiled. He kills living beings, takes what is not given, breaks in by cutting through walls, carries off plunder, commits burglary upon a single house, lurks in ambush on the highway, goes to others' wives, and speaks falsehood — thus too he is troubled, he struggles, he is defiled.
Kings, having seized him, inflict upon him various punishments: they have him flogged with whips, beaten with canes, beaten with cudgels; they cut off his hand, cut off his foot, cut off hand and foot, cut off his ear, cut off his nose, cut off ear and nose; they subject him to the "porridge-pot" (vilaṅgathālika), the "polished-shell shave" (saṅkhamuṇḍika), "Rāhu's mouth" (rāhumukha), the "fiery garland" (jotimālika), the "flaming hand" (hatthapajjotika), the "grass-blade dress" (erakavattika), the "bark dress" (cīrakavāsika), the "antelope" (eṇeyyaka), the "meat-hooks" (baḷisamaṃsika), the "coins" (kahāpaṇaka), the "lye-pickling" (khārāpatacchika), the "pivoting bar" (palighaparivattika), the "straw seat" (palālapīṭhaka); they douse him with boiling oil, have him devoured by dogs, impale him alive upon a stake, and cut off his head with a sword — thus too he is troubled, he struggles, he is defiled.
Or else, overcome by craving for sensual pleasures (kāmataṇhā), his mind (citta) possessed by it, seeking wealth he launches out upon the great ocean in a ship, facing cold, facing heat, afflicted by the touch of gadflies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and creeping creatures, oppressed by hunger and thirst; he goes to Gumba, goes to Takkola, goes to Takkasilā, goes to Kālamukha, goes to Maraṇapāra, goes to Vesuṅga, goes to Verāpatha, goes to Java, goes to Kamali, goes to Vaṅka, goes to Eḷavaddana, goes to Suvaṇṇakūṭa, goes to Suvaṇṇabhūmi, goes to Tambapaṇṇi, goes to Suppāra, goes to Bharuka, goes to Suraddha, goes to Aṅgaṇeka, goes to Gaṅgaṇa, goes to Paramagaṅgaṇa, goes to Yona, goes to Pina, goes to Allasanda, goes to the desert of Maru; he goes by the knee-path, goes by the goat-path, goes by the ram-path, goes by the peg-path, goes by the umbrella-path, goes by the bamboo-path, goes by the bird-path, goes by the mouse-path, goes by the ravine-path, goes by the rattan-course — thus too he is troubled, he struggles, he is defiled.
Seeking, he does not gain; he experiences suffering (dukkha) and grief rooted in non-gain — thus too he is troubled, he struggles, he is defiled. Seeking, he gains; and having gained, he experiences suffering and grief rooted in guarding it, thinking: "How may my wealth be neither carried off by kings, nor carried off by thieves, nor burnt by fire, nor swept away by water, nor taken by unloved heirs?" While he thus guards and protects it, his wealth is dissipated; he experiences suffering and grief rooted in separation from it — thus too he is troubled, he struggles, he is defiled. Hence: **he struggles like a fool**.
Therefore the Blessed One said:
Though reputed to be wise, one resolved upon the solitary life,
if afterwards he engages in sexual intercourse,
struggles like a fool.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.