& brahmans, its royalty & commonfolk—is, for the most part, submerged, like a tangled skein, a knotted ball of string, like matted rushes & reeds, and doesnât go beyond the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realm, the wandering-on. Whoever has become dispassionate to passion, aversion, & ignorance, crosses over this ocean, with its danger of sharks, demons, waves, so very hard to cross. Heâs one who has overcome ties, forsaken death, abandoned suffering & stress, is acquisition-free with no further becoming. Having gone to his end, he has no measure, has bewildered, I tell you, Deathâs king. See also: MN 67; MN 72; SN 22:36; SN 22:86; SN 44:1; Iti 109; Sn 5:6 - --> - - - -