"I see the pure, the supreme,
free from disease.
It's in connection
with what's seen
that a person's purity
is."
[1]
Understanding thus,
having known the "supreme,"
& remaining focused
on purity,
one falls back on that knowledge.
If it's in connection
with what is seen
that a person's purity is,
or if stress is abandoned
in connection with knowledge,
then a person with acquisitions
is purified
in connection with something else,
[2]
for his view betrays that
in the way he asserts it.
No brahman
[3]
says purity
comes in connection
with anything else.
Unsmeared with regard
to what's seen, heard, sensed,
precepts or practices,
merit or evil,
not creating
anything here,
he's let go
of what he had embraced.
[4]
Abandoning what's first,
they depend on what's next.
[5]
Following distraction,
they don't cross over attachment.
They embrace & reject
— like a monkey releasing a branch
to seize at another
[6] —
a person undertaking practices on his own,
goes high & low,
latched onto perception.
But having clearly known
through vedas,
[7] having encountered
the Dhamma,
one of profound discernment
doesn't go
high & low.
He's enemy-free
[8]
with regard to all things
seen, heard, or sensed.
By whom, with what,
[9]
should he
be pigeonholed
here in the world?
— one who has seen in this way,
who goes around
open.
[10]
They don't conjure, don't yearn,
don't proclaim "utter purity."
Untying the tied-up knot of grasping,
they don't form a desire for
any
thing
at all in the world.
The brahman
gone beyond territories,
[11]
has nothing that
— on knowing or seeing —
he's grasped.
Unimpassionate for passion,
not impassioned for dis-,
[12]
he has nothing here
that he's grasped as supreme.