[227] **Being right here** — in the phrase "Being right here, independent, I should wander": *being right here* means being (santo) right here, sitting right here, being seated on this very seat, being seated in this very assembly — thus too one is "being right here." Or alternatively: right here one is at peace (santo), calmed, stilled, quenched, tranquilized — thus too one is "being right here."
**Independent (asito):** there are two dependencies (nissaya): the dependency of craving (taṇhā) and the dependency of views … this is the dependency of craving … this is the dependency of views. Having abandoned the dependency of craving, having relinquished the dependency of views, one is not dependent on the eye, not dependent on the ear, not dependent on the nose, not dependent on the tongue, not dependent on the body, not dependent on the mind; not dependent on forms, sounds, odors, tastes, or tangibles; not dependent on family, group, dwelling, gain, fame, praise, or pleasure; not dependent on robes, almsfood, lodging, or medicinal requisites for the sick; not dependent on the sense-sphere element (kāmadhātu), the form element, or the formless element (dhātu); not dependent on sense-sphere existence, form existence, or formless existence; not dependent on percipient existence, non-percipient existence, or neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient existence; not dependent on one-constituent existence, four-constituent existence, or five-constituent existence; not dependent on the past, the future, or the present; not dependent on things seen, heard, sensed, or dhammas to be cognized — not attached to them, not drawn near to them, not bound up in them, not resolved upon them; gone out from them, relinquished, fully released, one dwells with a mind (citta) made free of boundaries — thus "independent."
**"I should wander" (careyyaṃ):** I should wander, roam about, move [in the postures (iriyāpatha)], proceed, maintain, carry on, sustain [myself] — thus "being right here, independent, I should wander." Therefore that brahmin said:
Instruct me, O Brahmā, out of compassion,
in the dhamma of seclusion, that I may understand it;
so that, untroubled like space,
being right here, independent, I might wander.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.