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Stories of Past Lives 19 · The Book of the Ones

If you would be released, after death might you be released, ^[1]

because releasing binds. ^[2]

That’s not how the attentive are released;

such release is the fool’s bondage.

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[1] The story is that a merchant makes a sacrifice to ensure the success of his voyage, vowing that on his return he will perform another sacrifice, freeing him from his vow. The verse is riddling, so I translate literally and paraphrase in the comments.

“If you want to be released from your vow, only in some future life might you find release.”

[2] “Because releasing yourself from a vow by sacrificing an animal only binds you to suffering.”