God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose (Essential Easwaran Library Book 4)

by Eknath Easwaran

difficult and dangerous to cross, and safely reached the other shore. That one I call a brahmin who has turned his back upon himself. Homeless, such a one is ever at home; egoless, he is ever full. Self-will has left his mind; it will never return. Sorrow has left his life; it will never return. That one I call a brahmin who has overcome the urge to possess even heavenly things and is free from all selfish attachments. That one I call a brahmin who is free from bondage to human beings and to nature alike, the hero who has conquered the world. That one I call a brahmin who is free from I, me, and mine, who knows the rise and fall of life. Such a one is awake and will not fall asleep again. That one I call a brahmin whose way no one can know. Such a one lives free from past and future, free from decay and death. Possessing nothing, desiring nothing for their own pleasure, their own profit, they have become a force for good, working for the freedom of all.