（原文）The mind, which Shantideva compares to an elephant, follows after the habits of the past and eagerly anticipates future thoughts. And caught up in the mental states and circumstances of the present moment, it is lost and dissipated in whatever arises.

Left running wild to its own devices, it accumulates bad karma, which in future lives will result in the intense pain of being boiled and roasted in Unrelenting Pain and the other hells.

In India, wild elephants were used for military purposes. They were maddened with alcohol and unleashed against the enemy, whose towns they were able to reduce to total ruin. Even so, they were powerless to inflict on human beings any harm comparable to the Hell of Unrelenting Pain. Therefore every effort should be made to control the mind.

（摘自入菩薩行論 釋）

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（譯）寂天菩薩將心比作大象，它的思想依循過去的習慣，並熱切期望未來的想法；並陷入當下的精神狀態和環境中，當它們升起時，心迷失了且耽溺在其中。心在自己的設定上瘋狂奔跑，積累了負面業力，導致未來無情的痛苦，以及地獄中沸騰和烘烤的劇烈痛苦。

  在印度，野生大象用於軍事目的，牠們因酒精而狂亂，向敵人發動攻墼，牠們能夠將敵方的城鎮夷為平地；即使這樣，牠們也無法對人類造成如無情地獄般的傷害。因此，應盡一切努力來控制思想。