7 Feeble with age, Still he is filled with desire, When without doubt he knows That lust is the enemy of awareness. Indeed how strange!
年老いて、衰弱しながらも彼はまだ欲深い 性欲が覚醒の敵だとはっきり知りながら 何と奇妙なことか!
8 He longs to be free. . . He has no care for this world Or the next, And he knows what is passing Or forever. And yet how strange! He is still afraid of freedom.