Chapter 1. Pairs
Verse 7
Global verse #7
As the wind blows down a weak tree, so Māra1 overthrows one who lives seeing the (unlovely as) lovely, whose senses are uncontrolled, who is immoderate in food, lazy, and of inferior vigour.
Footnotes
1. In Buddhist mythology, Mara is the ruler of the realm of sense desire (kāmaloka) as Brahmā is the ruler of the realm of archetypal form (rūpaloka). He is the Evil One (pāpimā), representing as he does the forces that obstruct the attainment of Enlightenment.