87-8. Giving up the state of darkness, Let the wise embrace the pure; Giving up home for the homeless Loneliness, where joys are rare, Let him long for bliss unbounded Casting all desire aside, Owning naught, and, firm in wisdom, Cleanse his heart from passion's stain. 89. They whose mind is rightly tempered In the Wisdom's seven ways,[1] Who have left desire behind them, Void of clinging, they rejoicing Passionless and all-resplendent, Even in this world are freed.[2] [1] The seven limbs of the Bodhi are:--_Sati_, concentration; _Dhammavicaya_, examination of mental processes or of nature; _Viriya_, energy; _Pīti_, zest; _Passaddhi_, calmness; _Samādhi_, mental balance; _Uṗekhā_, equanimity. [2] _Parinibbutā_, let free from rebirth by having attained the state of _Nibbāna_, "gone out." CHAPTER SEVEN. THE ARAHAT--THE WORTHY. 90. He for whom life's journey's over, free from sorrow, free from pain Who has all the knots unfastened, suffering knows not again. 91. Household life for them no joys hath; striving and intent in mind As the swan deserts the marshes, every home they leave behind. 92. They who gather up no treasure, feeding on the food that's known,[1] They who range in mind the Void, the unconditioned formless Space, As the bird's path in the ether, so their ways are hard to trace. 93. They whose taints are all evanished, independent of support, They who range in mind the Void, the unconditioned, formless Space, As the bird's path in the ether, so their tracks are hard to trace. 94. He whose senses now are tranquil, like a horse by trainer tamed (Pride struck off, the taints[2] evanished), to the very gods is famed.[3] 95. Like the solid ground unshaken, like the threshold of a door, Like a pool by mud unsullied, such a saint is born no more. 96. Calm the mind of such a being, calm his thoughts and words and deeds, Set free by the perfect knowledge, liberated from life's needs. 97. Self-dependent, self-sufficing, knower of the Uncreate[4] Who hath loosed the bonds of action, from the chain of births set free, All desires are fallen from him, noblest of all beings he. 98. In the village or the forest, on the water or the ground, Where the worthy ones are dwelling, there the earth's delights are found. 99. Ah! delightful are the forests! where the worldling finds no joy, There the passionless find pleasure, whom the senses do not cloy. [1] literally, 'whose food is thoroughly understood' (as to its properties, qualities and purpose). [2] The taints, _āsava's_, are three:--_kama_, desire; _bhava_, love of life; _avijjā_, ignorance. A fourth, _ditthi_, the holding of heretical views, is sometimes added. The gods are supposed to be still bound by these, and to envy the emancipated man. [3] 'famed', literally 'by the gods is envied'.