The vigilant sage who practises alone,
who unshaken is by blame or praise,
is as a lion that trembles not at sounds,
or as wind within a net cannot be caught,
or like a lotus flower by water not defiled,
leading other people but not by others led—
that one do the wise proclaim as a sage.
True Knower of the universe, Seer of highest truth,
crossed the ocean’s flood, One Thus and unattached,
One who’s knots are cut, with no inflows left—
that one do the wise proclaim as a sage.
Partial excerpts from Snp 1.12 : Muni Sutta
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