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Theravāda — Pali Canon · Khuddaka Nikāya — The Minor Collection
Dhp 90–997. The Perfected Ones
Pāli / Sanskrit:Arahantavagga
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Full translation (English)
– Minor Collection
Sayings of the Dhamma 90–99 7. The Perfected Ones
At journey’s end, rid of sorrow;everywhere free,all ties given up,no fever is found in them.The mindful apply themselves;they delight in no abode.Like a swan gone from the marsh,they leave home after home behind.Those with nothing stored up,who have understood their food,whose domain is the liberationof the signless and the empty:their path is hard to trace,like birds in the sky.One whose defilements have ended;who’s not attached to food;whose domain is the liberationof the signless and the empty:their track is hard to trace,like birds in the sky.Whose faculties have become serene,like horses tamed by a charioteer,who has abandoned conceit and defilements;the unaffected one is envied by even the gods.Undisturbed like the earth,true to their vows, steady as Indra’s pillar,like a lake clear of mud;such a one does not transmigrate.Their mind is peaceful,peaceful are their speech and deeds.Such a one is at peace,rightly freed through enlightenment.Lacking faith, a house-breaker,one who acknowledges nothing,purged of hope, they’ve wasted their chance:that is indeed the supreme person!Whether in village or wilderness,in a valley or the uplands,wherever the perfected ones liveis a delightful place.Delightful are the wildernesseswhere no people delight.Those free of greed will delight there,not those who seek sensual pleasures.
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