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383. Having striven, cut off the stream!
Dispel sensualities, O brahmana,
Having known the dissolution of the samkharas,
A knower of the Unmade are you, O brahmana.
384. When, with regard to two dhammas,
A brahmana has reached the further shore,
Then of that knowing one
All fetters come to an end.
385. For whom the further shore or the nearer shore
Or both do not exist,
Who is free of distress, unyoked,
That one I call a brahmana.
386. The one meditating, free of dirt, quietly sitting,
Tasks done, free of intoxicants,
Who has obtained the goal supreme,
That one I call a brahmana.
387. By day glows the sun,
At night shines the moon,
In war-array the monarch glows.
Meditating, a brahmana glows.
But all day and night
The Buddha glows in splendour.
388. As “one who has banished wrong” is one a brahmana,
Because of living in calm is one called a samana.
Dispelling one’s own stain
– Therefore is one called “gone forth.”
389. A brahmana would not attack a brahmana,
Or let loose [wrath] upon him.
Shame on one who strikes a brahmana,
And greater shame [on one] who lets loose [wrath] upon him.
390. When there is exclusion from what is pleasant to the mind;
That is no little good for the brahmana –
Whenever the intent to harm does cease,
Then indeed is sorrow calmed.
391. Of whom there is nothing ill done
With body, with speech, with mind,
Who is restrained in these three bases,
That one I call a brahmana.
392. From whom one would learn dhamma
Taught by the Fully Enlightened One,
Let one pay homage to that one
As a brahmana to the sacrificial fire.
393. Not by matted hair, not by clan,
Nor by birth does one become a brahmana.
In whom is truth and dhamma,
He is the pure one, and he is the brahmana.
394. What’s the use of your matted hair, O you of poor insight?
What’s the use of your deerskin garment?
Within you is the jungle;
The exterior you groom.
395. One who wears rags from a dust heap,
Lean, having veins [visibly] spread over body,
Meditating alone in the forest,
That one I call a brahmana.
396. And I do not call one a brahmana
Merely by being born from a [brahmana] womb,
Sprung from a [brahmana] mother.
He is merely a “bho-sayer”
If he is a possessor of things.
One who has nothing and takes nothing,
That one I call a brahmana.
397. Who does not tremble,
Having cut off every fetter,
who has gone beyond attachments, unbound,
That one I call a brahmana.
398. Having cut off the strap and thong,
Cord, together with the bridle,
Who has lifted the bar, awakened,
That one I call a brahmana.
399. Who unangered endures
Insult, assault, and binding,
Whose strength is forbearance, who has an army’s strength
That one I call a brahmana.
400. Who is free of anger, who observes the duties,
Who is virtuous, free of the flow [of craving],
Controlled, and in the final body,
That one I call a brahmana.
401. Like water on a lotus petal,
Like a mustard seed on the point of an awl,
Who is not smeared with sensualities,
That one I call a brahmana.
402. Who comes to understand, even here,
The destruction of sorrow,
Who has put aside the burden, who is free of the bonds,
That one I call a brahmana.
403. One having profound insight, wise,
Proficient as to path and non-path,
Who has attained the highest goal,
That one I call a brahmana.
404. One who is not gregarious
With both householders and homeless ones,
Living without an abode, desiring but little,
That one I call a brahmana.
405. Having laid down the rod
With regard to beings, the frightful and the firm,
Who neither slays nor causes to slay –
That one I call a brahmana.
406. One who is not opposing among those opposing,
Who is calmed among those who have taken weapons,
Free of grasping among those who are grasping,
That one I call a brahmana.
407. From whom passion and ill will,
Conceit and ingratitude, have been shed,
Like a mustard seed from the tip of an awl,
That one I call a brahmana.
408. Who would speak speech that is true,
That is instructive and not harsh,
By which one would anger none –
That one I call a brahmana.
409. Who, here in this world, does not take what is not given,
Whether long or short, small or great,
Pleasant or unpleasant,
That one I call a brahmana.
410. In whom are not found longings
For this world and for the beyond,
Without longing, released,
That one I call a brahmana.
411. In whom are not found attachments,
Who is without doubts due to understanding,
Who has attained the plunge into the Deathless,
That one I call a brahmana.
412. Who, here, has moved beyond attachment,
Both the meritorious and the detrimental,
Who is free of sorrow, free of dust, pure,
That one I call a brahmana.
413. Who, like the moon, is spotless, pure,
Serene, unagitated,
In whom is extinct the desire for existence,
That one I call a brahmana.
414. Who has passed over this [muddy] path, this fortress,
Delusion, which is samsara,
Who has crossed over it, gone beyond it, a meditator,
Passionless, without doubts,
Without grasping, pacified,
That one I call a brahmana.
415. Who, here, having renounced lusts,
Would go forth, a homeless one,
In whom is extinct sensual lust and [desire for] existence,
That one I call a brahmana.
416. Who, here, having renounced craving,
Would go forth, a homeless one,
In whom is extinct craving and [desire for] existence,
That one I call a brahmana.
417. Who, having abandoned the human bond,
Has transcended the heavenly bond,
Who is released from all bonds,
That one I call a brahmana.
418. Who, having abandoned attachment and aversion,
Who has become cool, free from substrates,
A hero overcoming the entire world –
That one I call a brahmana.
419. Who knows in every way
The passing away and rebirth of beings,
Unattached, well gone, awakened,
That one I call a brahmana.
420. Whose course
Gods, gandhabbas, and humans do not know
Whose intoxicants are extinct, an Arahant,
That one I call a brahmana.
421. For whom there is nothing
In front, behind, and in between,
The one, without anything, ungrasping,
That one I call a brahmana.
422. A bull, splendid, heroic,
A great sage, a victor,
Passionless, who has bathed, awakened,
That one I call a brahmana.
423. One who knows [his] former lives,
And sees the heavens and the states of woe,
And who has reached the extinction of births,
Who has perfected higher knowledge,
Sage, who has fulfilled the final perfection,
That one I call a brahmana.