You see, the difficulty is this:

You cannot teach

A selfish person to be unselfish.

By any means

That is to say

Whatever a selfish person does

Whether it be giving his body to be burned

Or giving all that he possesses to the poor

He will still do it in a selfish way of feeling

And he will be able to do this with extreme cunning

Marvelous self-deception

You see, the difficulty is this:

You cannot teach

A selfish person to be unselfish

By any means

That is to say

Whatever a selfish person does

Whether it be giving his body to be burned

Or giving all that he possesses to the poor

He will still do it in a selfish way of feeling

And he will be able to do this with extreme cunning

Marvelous self-deception