Dhammapada — Chapter 26: Brahmanavagga

41 verses

Verse 1

Strive and cut off the stream of craving. Discard sense pleasures, O brahmana. Knowing the destruction of conditioned things, you are a knower of the…

Verse 2

When the brahmana has gone beyond the two states (tranquillity and insight), then all the fetters of that knowing one come to an end.

Verse 3

One for whom there is neither this shore nor the other shore nor both, who is free from fear and unshackled — that one I call a brahmana.

Verse 4

One who is meditative, stainless, settled, whose task is done, who is free from taints, who has reached the highest goal — that one I call a brahmana.

Verse 5

The sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. The warrior shines in armor; the brahmana shines in meditation. But the Buddha shines resplendent al…