[Kappa:]

For one stranded in the middle of the lake,
in the flood of great danger — birth — 
overwhelmed with aging & death:
	Tell me the island, dear sir,
	and show me the island
	so that this may not happen again.

[The Buddha:]

For one stranded in the middle of the lake,
in the flood of great danger — birth — 
overwhelmed with aging & death,
	I will tell you the island, Kappa.

Having nothing,
clinging to no thing:
	That is the island,
	there is no other.
That's Unbinding, I tell you,
the total ending of aging & death.

Those knowing this, mindful,
		fully unbound
		in the here & now,
	don't serve as Mara's servants,
	don't come under Mara's sway.