[17] For one who has finished the journey, sorrowless,
released in every respect,
who has abandoned all ties (gantha),
no fever is found.
Those endowed with mindfulness apply themselves;
they take no delight in a dwelling.
Like swans that have left the pond behind,
they abandon home after home.
Those for whom there is no accumulation,¹
who have fully understood their food,
whose resort is the liberation (vimokkha)
that is empty (suññata) and signless (animitta) —
their course is hard to trace,
like that of birds in the sky.
One whose taints (āsava) are utterly destroyed,
who is not dependent on food,
whose resort is the liberation
that is empty and signless —
his track is hard to trace,
like that of birds in the sky.
One whose faculties have come to stillness,
as horses well tamed by a charioteer,
who has abandoned conceit and is without taints —
even the devas envy such a one, steadfast (tādī).
Like the earth, he is not resentful;
such a one, of good vows, is like Indra's pillar (indakhīla);
he is like a lake free of mud:
for such a steadfast one there are no more rounds of rebirth (saṃsāra).
Calm is his mind,
calm his speech and his action,
for one liberated through right final knowledge,
who is at peace, steadfast.
The person who is not credulous, who knows the Unmade (akata),
who has cut the link,
who has destroyed the occasion and cast out longing —
he truly is the supreme person.
Whether in a village or in the forest,
in a valley or on high ground,
wherever arahants dwell,
that ground is delightful.
Delightful are the forests
where the crowd finds no delight;
those free of lust will delight there,
for they are no seekers of sensual pleasures.
The Arahantavagga, the seventh chapter.
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The Sahassavagga, the eighth chapter of the Dhammapada verses.
¹ The M. and Yu. editions read "sannicayo."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.