Listen up, all my relatives, 
those who have gathered here: 
I’ll teach you Dhamma! 
Painful is birth again and again. 

Rouse yourselves, try harder! 
Devote yourselves to the instructions of the Buddha! 
Crush the army of death, 
as an elephant a hut of reeds. 

Whoever shall meditate diligently 
in this teaching and training, 
giving up transmigration, 
will make an end to suffering.