Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 146
23. ‘Ignorance, the merit or demerit of former actions, and desire are
to be known as the causes of mundane existence; he who abides in the
midst of this triad does not attain to the truth of things, –
24. ‘From mistake, egoism, confusion, fluctuation, indiscrimination,
false means, inordinate attachment, and gravitation.
25. ‘Now "mistake" acts in a contrary manner, it does wrongly what it
should do, and what it should think it thinks wrongly.
26. “I say," "I know," "I go," "I am firmly fixed," it is thus that
"egoism" shows itself here, O thou who art free from all egoism.
27. ‘That state of mind is called "confusion," O thou who art all
unconfused, which views under one nature, massed like a lump of
clay, objects that thus become confused in their nature.
28. ‘That state of mind which says that this mind, intellect, and these
actions are the same as "I," and that which says that all this aggregate
is the same as "I," – is called "fluctuation."
29. ‘That state of mind is called "indiscrimination," O thou who art
discriminating, which thinks there is no difference between the
illuminated and the unwise, and between the different evolvents.
30. ‘Uttering "namas" and "vaṣaṭ," sprinkling water upon sacrifices,
&c. with or without the recital of Vedic hymns, and such like rites, –
these are declared by the wise to be "false means," O thou who art
well skilled in true means.