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“Why should I hunt for meat from elsewhere

when my entire body is available before me?

It rests on chance whether Ajita finds food.

And if he does, it will impede my duty.

Besides,

This body has no self. It breaks up and has no worth.

A source of pain, it is ungrateful and ever unclean.

What wise man would not feel joy

at making their body useful to another being?

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People overlook the suffering of another

when powerless to help or attached to their happiness.

But I cannot be happy while another suffers.

How can I be indifferent if I am able to help?

If a person—even a murderer*—drowns in suffering and I remain indifferent, though I can help, my mind would burn like brushwood ignited by a huge fire, as if I had committed a crime.

By falling off this precipice,

I will use my lifeless body

to protect the tigress from killing her young

and save the young from their mother.