Source for Sanskrit text: Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon (Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam, Chapter 4) Source for Sanskrit text: Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon (Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam, Chapter 6)

Verse 4.1: The Origin of the World

Sanskrit Text

कर्मजं लोकवैचित्र्यं चेतना तत्कृतं च तत्।
चेतना मानसं कर्म तज्जं वाक्कायकर्मणी॥

Transliteration

karmajaṃ lokavaicitryaṃ cetanā tatkṛtaṃ ca tat |
cetanā mānasaṃ karma tajjaṃ vākkāyakarmaṇī ||

Translation

The diversity of the world is born of action (Karma). It consists of volition (Cetanā) and what is produced by it. Volition is mental action; from it arise physical and vocal actions.


Verse 6.2: The Four Noble Truths

Sanskrit Text

सत्यान्युक्तानि चत्वारि दुःखं समुदयस्तथा।
निरोधमार्ग इति एषां यथाभिसमयं क्रमः॥

Transliteration

satyānyuktāni catvāri duḥkhaṃ samudayastathā |
nirodhamārga iti eṣāṃ yathābhisamayaṃ kramaḥ ||

Translation

The Four Truths have been taught: Suffering (Duḥkha), its Origin (Samudaya), its Cessation (Nirodha), and the Path (Mārga). Their sequence follows the order in which they are realized.


Verse 6.16: The Peak of Mindfulness

Sanskrit Text

स धर्मस्मृत्युपस्थाने समस्तालम्बने स्थितः।
अनित्यदुःखतः शून्यानात्मतस्तान्विपश्यति॥

Transliteration

sa dharmasmṛtyupasthāne samastālambane sthitaḥ |
anityaduḥkhataḥ śūnyānātmatastānvipaśyati ||

Translation

Established in the foundation of mindfulness of phenomena (Dharma-smṛtyupasthāna), which has all things as its object, the practitioner sees them as impermanent, suffering, empty, and not-self.