Then Mara the Evil One, wanting to arouse fear, horripilation, & terror in her, wanting to make her fall away from concentration, approached her & said, "What is it that you don't approve of, nun?"

"I don't approve of birth, my friend."

[Mara:]

Why don't you approve of birth?
    One who is born    
    enjoys sensual pleasures.
Who on earth
ever persuaded you:
    'Nun, don't approve of birth'?

For one who is born
        there's death.
One who is born
        sees pain.
It's a binding, a flogging, a torment.
That's why one shouldn't approve
        of birth.

The Awakened One taught me the Dhamma
    -- the overcoming of birth --
    for the abandoning of all pain,
        he established me in
        the truth.
But beings who have come to form
& those with a share in the formless,
    if they don't discern cessation,
    return to becoming-again.