He is free from restrictions of caste, creed, stage of life,
custom and scriptures.
The idea of "I" and "mine",
of something to be achieved and something to be avoided,
has died within him.
No purpose of the sage is served by any activity,
nor by abstaining from any activity.
He therefore does as the occasion suits him.
There is nothing which he has to achieve.
He therefore performs and gives up actions without much concern,
like children.
He does not work to get anything for himself.
He is always very happy and never hangs his joy on anything else.
He never hankers for the pleasures that are not in his hand,
but enjoys all those he has.
In spite of his being occupied with actions
appropriate to the time, place and circumstance,
he is not touched by pleasure and pain arising from them.
Pleasures do not delight him; pains do not distress him.
There is no feeling of like or dislike produced in his mind
even towards serious, violent or continued states
of pleasure and pain.
Although externally engaged in worldly actions,
has has no attachment in his mind to any object whatsoever.
He regards his activities as part of the cosmic movement,
and performs them without personal desire.
He behaves with his fellow-beings as the occasion
and the status of the person demand,
without the least stain on his mind.
His conduct does not annoy anybody;
he behaves like an ideal citizen and friend to all.
In the company of the humble, he is humble.
To the knave he appears as a knave.
He plays as a young child in the company of children;
he is a youth amongst the young;
he acts as an old man in the company of the aged ones.
He is full of courage in the part of courageous people;
and shares the misery of the miserable ones.
He is full of mercy and magnanimity
even when surrounded by enemies.
He never feels despondent, proud, agitated, cast down,
troubled or elated.
His face is never without the lustre of cheerfulness on it.
He eats with equal gusto the eatables of all tastes,
of ordinary and superior quality.
He does not paralyze any one of the natural functions of his body
for want of proper exercise.
His body is a kingdom unto him, over which he rules wisely and well.
He keeps it healthy,
and does not starve it of its appropriate requirements.
He is a great worker.
He works without any anxiety, egoistic feeling,
pride or impurity of heart.
He is a great enjoyer.
He does not discard the pleasure that he has gotten,
not desires the pleasure that he has not gotten.
He has no longer any struggle for livelihood.
He finds equal pleasure in old age, death, misery, poverty
and in ruling over an empire.
Outwardly he is very busy, but at heart very calm and quiet.
He has reached the state of natural goodness and inner purity
and he is beautiful in every aspect of his being.
He rests, unagitated, in supreme bliss.
Even doing all sorts of actions, the liberated one is always in samadhi.
His inner light shines at all times, never rising and never setting.
Having seen him, having heard about him, having met him,
and having remembered him, all creatures feel delighted.
The life of a liberated sage is really the noblest and happiest life.
From him goodness is scattered all around.
