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07 - The Venerable (Arhat) - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven. The venerable or hat There is no suffering
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  Speaker 1: for him who has finished his journey and abandoned grief,
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  Speaker 1: who has freed himself on all sides and thrown off
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  Speaker 1: all fetters. They depart with their faults well collected. They
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  Speaker 1: are not happy in their abode, Like swans who have
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  Speaker 1: left their lake. They leave their house and home. Men
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  Speaker 1: who have no riches, who live on recognized food, who
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  Speaker 1: have perceived void and unconditioned freedom nirvana. Their path is
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  Speaker 1: difficult to understand, like that of birds in the air.
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  Speaker 1: He whose appetites are stilled, who is not absorbed in enjoyment,
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  Speaker 1: who has perceived void and unconditioned freedom nirvana, His path
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to understand, like that of birds in the air.
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  Speaker 1: The gods even envy him whose senses, like horses well
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  Speaker 1: broken in by the driver, have been subdued. Who is
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  Speaker 1: free from pride and free from appetites. Such a one
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  Speaker 1: who does his duty is tolerant like the earth, like
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  Speaker 1: Indra's bolt, He is like a lake without mud. No
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  Speaker 1: new births are in store for him. His thought is quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Quiet are his word and deed. When he has obtained
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  Speaker 1: freedom by true knowledge, When he has thus become a
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  Speaker 1: quiet man. The man who is free from credulity, but
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  Speaker 1: knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations,
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  Speaker 1: renounced all desires, He is the greatest of men. In
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  Speaker 1: a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water
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  Speaker 1: or on the dry land, wherever venerable persons or haunter dwell,
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  Speaker 1: that place is delightful. Forests are delightful where the world
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  Speaker 1: finds no delight. There the passionless will find delight, for
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  Speaker 1: they look not for pleasures. End of Chapter seven