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# Thag 14:1 · Revata’s Farewell
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/thag-14-1/
- Published: 2026-06-01T01:27:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:45:28.000Z
- Description: Theragāthā · Thag 14:1. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
- Tags: Buddhism, Sutta Piṭaka, Text, Indian, The Elder Monks, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, Theragāthā, Verse, Pali, Early Buddhist, Library

Since I went forth

from home into homelessness,

I haven’t known

an ignoble, aversive resolve.

“May these beings

be destroyed,

be slaughtered,

fall into pain”—

I’ve not known this resolve

in this long, long time.

But I have known goodwill,

unlimited,

fully developed,

nurtured step after step,

as taught by the One

Awake:

to all, a friend;

to all, a comrade;

for all beings, sympathetic.[1](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Thag/thag14%5F1.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co)

And I develop a mind of goodwill,

delighting in non-malevolence

—always.

Unvanquished, unshaken,

I gladden the mind.

I develop the sublime abiding,

not frequented by

the lowly.

Attaining no-thinking,

the disciple of the Rightly

Self-awakened One

is endowed with noble silence[2](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Thag/thag14%5F1.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co)

straightaway.

As a mountain of rock

is unmoving,

firmly established,

so a monk,

with the ending of delusion,

like a mountain,

doesn’t quake.

To a person without blemish,

in constant quest of what’s pure,

a hair-tip of evil

seems a storm cloud.

As a frontier fortress is guarded

within & without,

you should safeguard yourselves.

Don’t let the moment

pass you by.

I don’t delight in death,

don’t delight in living.

I await my time

like a worker his wage.

I don’t delight in death,

don’t delight in living.

I await my time,

mindful, alert.

The Teacher has been served by me;

the Awakened One’s bidding,

done;

the heavy load, laid down;

the guide to becoming, uprooted.

And the goal for which I went forth

from home life into homelessness

I’ve reached:

the end

of all fetters.

Attain consummation

through heedfulness:

That is my message.

So then, I’m about to

unbind.

I’m released

everywhere.[3](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Thag/thag14%5F1.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co)

Notes

1\. On the development of goodwill as an unlimited attitude, see [MN 21](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/mn-21/) and [SN 42:8](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-42-8/).

2\. Noble silence = the second jhāna.

3\. [AN 3:77](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-3-77/) and [AN 3:78](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-3-78/) use the analogy of a field to describe becoming, in which kamma is the field, craving the moisture, and consciousness the seed. The logic of the analogy suggests that if consciousness is not watered by craving, and does not land in any place (see [SN 12:64](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-12-64/)), it is like a seed without moisture or a field. Therefore it will not sprout into further becoming. Poems in the Canon often describe the arahant as being “everywhere released” (sabbattha vimutto—see [Dhp 348](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/dhp-24/)) or “everywhere independent” (sabbattha anissito—see [Sn 4:6](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-4-6/)), referring indirectly to this analogy. Translators, lacking a sense of the underlying image of the idiom, have tended to render it in more prosaic terms: “completely released in every respect,” “not dependent on anything,” “released from everything.” However, in light of the field analogy, the idiom means precisely what it says: The arahant is released from every possible “where,” whether fabricated or not—every possible spot for renewed becoming.

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*Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) licence, for free distribution only. Source: [dhammatalks.org](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Thag/thag14%5F1.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) (Metta Forest Monastery).*