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Dhp XXVI
PTS: Dhp 383-423
Brahmanavagga: Brahmans
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
© 1997
Alternate translation: Buddharakkhita
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##### 383

Having striven, brahman, cut the stream. Expel sensual passions. Knowing the ending of fabrications, brahman, you know the Unmade.

##### 384

When the brahman has gone to the beyond of two things, then all his fetters go to their end — he who knows.

##### 385

One whose beyond or not-beyond or beyond-&-not-beyond can't be found; unshackled, carefree: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 386

Sitting silent, dustless, absorbed in jhana, his task done, effluents gone, ultimate goal attained: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 387

By day shines the sun; by night, the moon; in armor, the warrior; in jhana, the brahman. But all day & all night, every day & every night, the Awakened One shines in splendor.

##### 388

He's called a brahman for having banished his evil, a contemplative for living in consonance, one gone forth for having forsaken his own impurities.

##### 389

One should not strike a brahman, nor should the brahman let loose with his anger. Shame on a brahman's killer. More shame on the brahman whose anger's let loose.

##### 390

Nothing's better for the brahman than when the mind is held back from what is endearing & not. However his harmful-heartedness wears away, that's how stress simply comes to rest.

##### 391

Whoever does no wrong in body, speech, heart, is restrained in these three ways: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 392

The person from whom you would learn the Dhamma taught by the Rightly Self-Awakened One: you should honor him with respect — as a brahman, the flame for a sacrifice.

##### 393-394

Not by matted hair, by clan, or by birth, is one a brahman. Whoever has truth & rectitude: he is a pure one, he, a brahman. What's the use of your matted hair, you dullard? What's the use of your deerskin cloak? The tangle's inside you. You comb the outside.

##### 395

Wearing cast-off rags — his body lean & lined with veins — absorbed in jhana, alone in the forest: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 396

I don't call one a brahman for being born of a mother or sprung from a womb. He's called a 'bho-sayer' if he has anything at all. But someone with nothing, who clings to no thing: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 397

Having cut every fetter, he doesn't get ruffled. Beyond attachment, unshackled: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 398

Having cut the strap & thong, cord & bridle, having thrown off the bar, awakened: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 399

He endures — unangered — insult, assault, & imprisonment. His army is strength; his strength, forbearance: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 400

Free from anger, duties observed, principled, with no overbearing pride, trained, a 'last-body': he's what I call a brahman.

##### 401

Like water on a lotus leaf, a mustard seed on the tip of an awl, he doesn't adhere to sensual pleasures: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 402

He discerns right here, for himself, on his own, his own ending of stress. Unshackled, his burden laid down: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 403

Wise, profound in discernment, astute as to what is the path & what's not; his ultimate goal attained: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 404

Uncontaminated by householders & houseless ones alike; living with no home, with next to no wants: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 405

Having put aside violence against beings fearful or firm, he neither kills nor gets others to kill: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 406

Unopposing among opposition, unbound among the armed, unclinging among those who cling: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 407

His passion, aversion, conceit, & contempt, have fallen away — like a mustard seed from the tip of an awl: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 408

He would say what's non-grating, instructive, true — abusing no one: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 409

Here in the world he takes nothing not-given — long, short, large, small, attractive, not: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 410

His longing for this & for the next world can't be found; free from longing, unshackled: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 411

His attachments, his homes, can't be found. Through knowing he is unperplexed, has come ashore in the Deathless: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 412

He has gone beyond attachment here for both merit & evil — sorrowless, dustless, & pure: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 413

Spotless, pure, like the moon — limpid & calm — his delights, his becomings, totally gone: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 414

He has made his way past this hard-going path — samsara, delusion — has crossed over, has gone beyond, is free from want, from perplexity, absorbed in jhana, through no-clinging Unbound: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 415-416

Whoever, abandoning sensual passions here, would go forth from home — his sensual passions, becomings, totally gone: he's what I call a brahman. Whoever, abandoning craving here, would go forth from home — his cravings, becomings, totally gone: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 417

Having left behind the human bond, having made his way past the divine, from all bonds unshackled: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 418

Having left behind delight & displeasure, cooled, with no acquisitions — a hero who has conquered all the world, every world: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 419

He knows in every way beings' passing away, and their re- arising; unattached, awakened, well-gone: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 420

He whose course they don't know — devas, gandhabbas, & human beings — his effluents ended, an arahant: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 421

He who has nothing — in front, behind, in between — the one with nothing who clings to no thing: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 422

A splendid bull, conqueror, hero, great seer — free from want, awakened, washed: he's what I call a brahman.

##### 423

He knows his former lives. He sees heavens & states of woe, has attained the ending of birth, is a sage who has mastered full-knowing, his mastery totally mastered: he's what I call a brahman.

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