e–monk or nun–in whom passion is abandoned, aversion is abandoned, & delusion is abandoned, is said to have crossed the ocean with its waves, breakers, & whirlpools, its seizers & demons. Having crossed over, having reached the far shore, he/she stands on high ground, a brahman." One whose passion, aversion, & ignorance have faded away, has crossed over this ocean with its seizers, demons, dangerous waves, so hard to cross. Free from acquisitions –bonds surmounted, death abandoned– he has abandoned stress with no further becoming. Having gone to the goal he is undefined,2 has outwitted, I tell you, the King of Death. Notes 1. See §109. 2. See Skill in Questions, Appendix Four. - --> - - - -