ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་ལྕགས་ཀྱི་ཁྲི་དཔག་ཚད་སྟོང་པ་རབ་ཏུ་ཚ་བ། ཀུན་ཏུ་རབ་ཏུ་འབར་བ། མེ་དང་འདྲ་བར་གྱུར་པ་དང་མཐང་སྦྱར་ཀྱང་བླའི། ཕ་དང་མས་བྱིན་པའི་ཆུང་མ་ལ་རྒྱང་རིང་པོ་ནས་ཀུན་ཏུ་ཆགས་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་ལྟ་བ་ཡང་དེ་ལྟ་མ་ཡིན་ན་ མཐང་སྦྱར་བ་ལྟ་ཅི་སྨོས། དེ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་ཞེ་ན། ཆུང་མ་ནི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་སྡིག་པའི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་ཀུན་ནས་མནར་སེམས་ཀྱི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་འཆིང་བའི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་མྱ་ངན་གྱི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་དགྲའི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་དམུས་ལོང་གི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་མིག་དང་མི་འཐུན་པའི་རྩ་བའོ། ། ཆུང་མ་ནི་ལྕགས་དང་རྡོ་བསྲེགས་པ་བཀྲམ་པའི་སའོ། །
“Why is this? Śāriputra, the Tathāgata is knowledgeable, while all sentient beings remain ignorant. When someone knowledgeable forbids something, then there is good reason for it. When the ignorant grasp after things, that is a mistake. What is it that the ignorant grasp after? They grasp after conditioned things. They grasp after sons, daughters, and wives. This is what they grasp after, and as they are entangled by grasping they are not seized by the noble path. Being caught up in sons, daughters, and wives leads to attachment and craving and is a hindrance to the renunciant life. It is a hindrance to morality, a hindrance to meditation, a hindrance to heaven, and a hindrance to nirvāṇa. Keeping male and female servants and having sons, daughters, and wives is a hindrance to any kind of wholesome practice. Similarly, when one has sons, daughters and wives, one is providing for an enemy, and one is providing for the hell realms, the animal realms, and the spirit world governed by Yama. In short, one is providing for all imaginable unwholesome things. These things are a hindrance to healthy sustenance, and they are a hindrance to seeing the Buddha. Similarly, they are a hindrance to hearing the Dharma, to serving the Saṅgha, to seeing the Buddha and developing faith in him, to hearing the Dharma and developing faith in it, to serving the Saṅgha and developing faith in it, and to encountering favorable conditions. Similarly, they are a hindrance to attaining the riches of faith, the riches of morality, the riches of learning, the riches of wisdom, the riches of renunciation, the riches of modesty, and the riches of self-control. One becomes distrustful when one has wives, sons, and daughters. Likewise, one becomes immoral, stingy, mean, dull minded, shameless, and immodest when one has wives, sons, and daughters. When one has wives, sons, and daughters, one becomes sick, with boils and pain, one takes hold of the fire element, and one takes hold of a poisonous snake. Living as a householder is like living in a charnel ground. I tell you, the charnel ground of the house is a barren wasteland that steals away everything that brings any benefit. Enjoying wives, sons, and daughters, Śāriputra, is like enjoying a bolt of lightning. It is like enjoying a sharp sword or a seat of molten iron. When one enjoys fragrant flowers, rosaries, and ointments, one is in fact enjoying an iron seat, a garland of iron balls, and an ointment of feces and urine. Keeping a house is like keeping an iron kettle. Someone who keeps male and female servants and workers and laborers is providing for the guardians of hell. Someone who keeps elephants, horses, buffaloes, donkeys, sheep, fowl, and pigs is providing for creatures such as Śyāma and Śabala to be dispatched for a hundred yojanas. Someone who has wives, sons, and daughters is providing for all kinds of suffering, depression, and grief.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings