Translated by: Acharya Buddharakkhita The Pairs. (verses 7-20)

7. Just as a storm throws down a weak tree, so does Mara overpower the man who lives for the pursuit of pleasures, who is uncontrolled in his sense, immoderate in eating, indolent, and dissipated.

8. Just as a storm cannot prevail against a rocky mountain, so Mara can never overpower the man who lives meditating on the impurities, who is controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, and filled with faith and earnest effort.

9. Whoever being depraved, devoid of self-control and truthfulness, should don the monks yellow robe, he surely is not worthy of the robe.

10. But whoever is purged of depravity, well established in virtues and filled with self-control and truthfulness, he indeed is worthy of the yellow robe.

11. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.

12. Those who mistake the unessential to be essential and the essential to be unessential, dwelling in right thoughts, do arrive at the essential.

13. Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, so passion penetrates an untrained mind.

14. Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so passion never penetrates a well-trained mind.

15. The evil-doer grieves here and thereafter; he grieves in both worlds.  He laments and is afflicted, recollecting his own impure deeds.

16. The doer of good rejoices here and thereafter; he rejoices in both worlds.  He rejoices and exalts, recollecting his own pure deeds.

17. The evil-doer grieves here and thereafter; he suffers in both worlds.  The thought “Evil have I done,” torments him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss.

18. The doer of good rejoices here and thereafter; he rejoices in both worlds.  The thought “Good have I done,” delights him, and he delights even more when gone to realms of bliss.

19. Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others-he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life

20. Little though he recites the sacred texts, but puts the Teaching into practice, forsaking lust, hatred, and delusion, with true wisdom and emancipated mind, clinging to nothing of this or any other world-he indeed partakes of the blessings of a holy life.