Strive and stop the stream of craving,
Discrad, O brahmana, sense-desires.
Knowing conditioned things, brahmana,
You will know the Unconditioned.

When depending on the twofold means,
A brahmana has reached the Other Shore,
Then of that one who knows,
All fetters remain no more.

For whom there exists
Neither the Hither nor the Farther Shore,
Nor both the Hither and the Farther Shore,
He who is undistressed and unbound -
Him do I call a brahmana.

Meditative, dwelling alone,
Free from passion taint,
Having done what should be done,
Devoid of all corruptions,
And having reached the Highest Goal -
Him do I call a brahmana.

By day the sun shines.
By night the moon is bright.
Armoured shines the warrior.
In meditation the brahmana glows.
But all day and all night,
The Buddha shines in splendour.

Without evil he is called a brahmana.
He who lives in peace is called a samana.
With all impurities gone,
A pabbajita is he called.

One should not strike a brahmana,
Nor such a brahmana vent his wrath on him.
Woe to him who strikes a brahmana.
More woe to him who gives way to his wrath.

Naught is better for a brahmana.
Than restraint of mind from what is clear.
Whenever his ill will has been put aside,
Then and then only his sorrow subsides.

He in whom there is no evil done,
Through body speech or mind,
He who is restrained in the three ways -
Him do I call a brahmana.

From whom one knows the Truth Sublime
Which the Awakened One proclaimed,
Devotedly should one revere him,
As a brahmana tends the sacrificial fire.

Not by matted hair , nor by clan , nor by birth,
Does one become a brahmana.
In whom there are truth and righteousness,
Pure in he, a brahmana is he.

What use of your matted hair , O foolish one?
And what of your entelope-garment?
Full of impurities is your mind,
You embellish only the outside.

Clad in rag-robes and lean,
With body overspread by veins,
Miditating in the forest alone -
Him do I call a brahmana.

I do not call him a brahmana
Merely because he is born of a womb
Or sprung from a brahmani.
If he is full of impediments,
He is merely a brahmana by name.
He who is free from impediments and clinging -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has cut off all bonds,
He who trembles not,
He who is free and unbound -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has cut off the strap (of hatred),
The thong (of craving),
The rope (of heresies),
Together with all tendencies;
He who has thrown up the cross-bar
(ignorance),
And has realized the Truth -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who is not wrathful
Bears reviling, blows and bonds,
Whose power, the potent army, is patience -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who is free from anger,
He who is dutiful and righteous,
He who is without craving, and controlled;
And he who bears his final body -
Him do I call a brahmana.

Like water on a lotusleaf,
Like a mustard seed on a needle's point,
He who clings not to sensual pleasures -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has realized in this world
The destruction of his own ill,
Who has put aside the burden and is freed -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He whose wisdom is deep,
Who is wise and skilled
In the right and wrong means,
Who has reached the Highest Goal -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who is not intimate
With both householder and homeless,
Who with no fixed abode
Wanders, wanting but little -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has given up harming creatures,
Wheter feeble or strong,
Who neither kills nor causes to kill -
Him do I call a brahmana.

Friendly among the hostile,
Peaceful among the violent,
Ungrasping among the grasping -
Him do I call a brahmana.

์In whom lust, hatred, pride
And detraction are fallen off,
As a mustard seed from the needle's point -
Him do I call a brahmana.

์He who utters words
Gentle, instructive and true,
He who gives offence to none -
Him do I call a brahmana.

์He who in this world
Takes not what is not given,
Be it long or short,
Small or great, fair or foul -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has no longing
Either for this world or next world,
Who is detached and emancipated -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has no more longing,
Who through knowledge is free from doubts,
Who has plunged deep into the Deathless -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has passed beyond
Good and bad and attachment,
Who is sorrowless, stainless and pure -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who is pure as the spotless moon,
He who is serene and clear,
He who has ended delight in existence -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has passed beyond
This quagmire, this difficult path,
The ocean ( of life ) and delusion,
Who has crossed and gone beyond,
Who is meditative, desireless and doubtless,
Who, clinging to nought, has attained Nibbana -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who, giving up sensual pleasures,
Would renounce and become a homeless one,
Who has removed the lust of becoming -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who, giving up craving,
Would renounce and become a homeless one,
Who has destroyed the craving for existence -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who, discarding human ties,
And transcending celestial ties,
Is completely freed from all ties -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who has given up delight and aversion,
Who is cooled and without attachments,
Strenuous and victorious over the world -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who perfectly understands
The rise and fall of all beings,
Who is detached, well-gone and enlightened -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He whose way is unknown
To gods, gandharvas and men,
Who has destroyed all defilements
And who has become enlightened -
Him do I call a brahmana.

He who clings not to the past,
The present and the future, too,
Who has no clinging and grasping -
Him do I call a brahmana.

The fearless, the noble, the hero,
The great sage, the conqueror,
The desireless, the pure, the enlightened -
Him do I call a brahmana.

The sage who knows his previous births,
Who sees heaven and hell,
Who has reached the end of births,
Who has attained to insight-wisdom,
Who has completed his holy life -
Him do I call a brahmana.