§ 69.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Anyone -- monk or nun -- in whom passion is unabandoned, aversion is unabandoned, & delusion is unabandoned, is said not to have crossed the ocean with its waves, breakers, & whirlpools, its monsters & demons.^* Anyone -- 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 monsters & demons. Having crossed over, having reached the far shore, he/she stands on high ground, a brahman."

One whose passion, aversion, & ignorance
    are washed away,
has crossed over this ocean
with its sharks,
        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,^**
    has outwitted, I tell you,
        the King of Death.