Death and life, preservation and ruin,

Blame and praise, cold and heat,

Failure and success, hunger and thirst,

Poverty and wealth, superiority

And inferiority—all these

Are the changes of environment

And unforeseen circumstances—

The operation of our appointed lot.

Day and night they succeed

To one another, alternating before us,

But there is no wisdom able to discover

To what they owe their origination.

They are not sufficient and therefore

Strive to disturb the harmony

Of the profound, and are not allowed

To enter into the treasury of awareness.

To cause this harmony and satisfaction

Ever to be diffused while the feeling

Of pleasure is not lost from the attitude.

To allow no break to arise in this state

Day and night, so that it is always springtime

In our relations with all external things

And their maturity, through which they die.

In our daily experience to realise from within,

We try to be appropriate to each season

And every point of the yearly circuit.

To cut it short, these are the innate traits

Of all those whose power of insight

Is always on and needs no time to be proved.