Iti 69
Itivuttaka: The Group of Threes
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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.[1] 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,[2] has outwitted, I tell you, the King of Death.
Notes
1. See §109. 2.See §63.