One whose defilements have ended; who’s not attached to food; whose range is the liberation of the signless and the empty: their track is hard to trace, like birds in the sky.
Vijaya
Thag 1.92 · Vijayattheragāthā
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Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato and Jessica Walton · SuttaCentral · CC0
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