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## Dhammapada VII

# Arahants

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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90:

> In one who
> has gone the full distance,
> is free from sorrow,
> is fully released
> in all respects,
> has abandoned all bonds:
> no fever is found.

91:

> The mindful keep active,
> don't delight in settling back.
> They renounce every home,
> every home,
> like swans taking off from a lake.

92-93*:

> Not hoarding,
> having understood food,
> their pasture -- emptiness
> & freedom without sign:
> their trail,
> like that of birds through space,
> can't be traced.
> Effluents ended,
> independent of nutriment,
> their pasture -- emptiness
> & freedom without sign:
> their trail,
> like that of birds through space,
> can't be traced.

94-96*:

> He whose senses are steadied
> like stallions
> well-trained by the charioteer,
> his conceit abandoned,
> free of effluent,
> Such:
> even devas adore him.

> Like the earth, he doesn't react --
> cultured,
> Such,
> like Indra's pillar,
> like a lake free of mud.
> For him
> -- Such --
> there's no traveling on.

> Calm is his mind,
> calm his speech
> & his deed:
> one who's released through right knowing,
> pacified,
> Such.

97*:

> The man
> faithless / beyond conviction
> ungrateful / knowing the Unmade
> a burglar / who has severed connections
> who's destroyed
> his chances / conditions
> who eats vomit: / has disgorged expectations:
> the ultimate person.

98:

> In village or wilds,
> valley, plateau:
> that place is delightful
> where arahants dwell.

99:

> Delightful wilds
> where the crowds don't delight,
> those free from passion
> delight,
> for they're not searching
> for sensual pleasures.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001