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In a person
who has completed the journey;
who is free of sorrow;
who is completely liberated from all things;
who is free of all bonds:
burning distress is not found.
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Mindful beings get on their way:
They don’t enjoy in homes to stay.
Hearths and homes those men forsake,
Like swans depart a charming lake. |
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Those who hoards of goods don’t keep,
Who see with wisdom what they eat,
Who focus on, in meditation,
Signless void emancipation:
Unknowable their future state,
Like birds that through the skies migrate. |
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Those who do not cling to food,
The taints of whom are all removed,
Who focus on, in meditation,
Signless void emancipation:
Their final path is hard to spy
As that in space on which birds fly. |
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One who has calmed his faculties - like a charioteer his well-trained horses - and who has abandoned the presumption of a ‘me’, and who is free of the asavas, even the devas adore him. |
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For someone as hard to offend as the earth, as firm in his spiritual vows as a rock, as free of dirt as a lake, there is no more wandering in samsara.
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Those who are
peaceful in mind;
peaceful in speech;
peaceful in conduct;
freed through perfect insight:
such ones are utterly peaceful.
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A person
who is not credulous;
who knows the unconditioned;
who has broken all fetters;
who has destroyed the possibility of rebirth;
who has eliminated passion;
is the greatest of persons. |
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Wherever an arahant chooses to stay,
High on a mountain, or down on the plain,
Whether in village or quiet forestation,
Delightful indeed is that lovely location. |
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Delightful indeed is that wild forestation
Where commonplace people find no titillation.
There, passionless men find a quiet delectation,
For they are not thirsting for sense stimulation. |
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