“Twice I have asked Sakka,”
(said the venerable Mogharāja),
“but the One with Vision did not answer me;
Yet I have heard that the divine sage,
answers upon the third request.
As to this world, the other world,
the Brahma world together with the gods,
I do not know your view,
O renowned Gotama.
Thus, (to) one of excellent vision,
I have come in need with a question;
How does one look upon the world,
so that the King of Death does not see one?”
“Look upon the world as empty,
Mogharāja, being ever mindful;
Having uprooted the sense of self,
one might thus cross over death;
The King of Death does not see,
one who looks upon the world in this way.”