The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 151
tāmisramiti cākrodha krodhamevādhikurvate |
viṣāda cādhatāmisramaviṣāda pracakṣate || 12.36
36. ‘They define anger, O thou angerless one, as "darkness;" and despondency, O
undesponding, they pronounce to be the "blind darkness."
anayāvidyayā bālaḥ sayuktaḥ pacaparvayā |
sasāre duḥkhabhūyiṣṭhe janmasvabhiniṣicyate || 12.37
37. ‘The child, entangled in this fivefold ignorance, is effused in his different births in
a world abounding with misery.
draṣṭā śrotā ca matā ca kārya karaṇameva ca |
ahamityevamāgamya sasāre parivartate || 12.38
38. ‘He wanders about in the world of embodied existence, thinking that I am the seer,
and the hearer, and the thinker, — the effect and the cause.
ityebhirhetubhirdhīman tamaḥsrotaḥ pravartate |
hetvabhāve phalābhāva iti vijñātumarhasi || 12.39
39. ‘Through these causes, 1 O wise prince, the stream of "torpor" is set in motion; be
pleased to consider that in the absence of the cause there is the absence of the effect.
tatra samyagmatirvidyānmokṣakāma catuṣṭayam |
pratibuddhāprabuddhau ca vyaktamavyaktameva ca || 12.40
40. ‘Let the wise man who has right views know these four things, O thou who desirest
liberation, — the illuminated and the unilluminated, the manifested and the
unmanifested.
yathāvadetadvijñāya kṣetrajño hi catuṣṭayam |
ārjava javatā hitvā prāpnoti padamakṣaram || 12.41
41. ‘The soul, having once learned to distinguish these four properly, having
abandoned all (ideas of) straightness or quickness, 2 attains to the immortal sphere.
ityartha brāhmaṇā loke paramabrahmavādinaḥ |
brahmacarya caratīha brāhmaṇān vāsayati ca || 12.42
42. ‘For this reason the Brāhmans in the world, discoursing on the supreme Brahman,
practise here a rigorous course of sacred study and let other Brāhmans live with them
to follow it also.’
1 Cf. ver. 23.
2 It rises above all relative ideas? The text may be corrupt.