The Dhammapada
Chapter XI
Old Age
Verse CLIII, CLIV



Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I
have run through a course of many births, not
finding him; and painful is birth again and
again. But now, maker of this tabernacle, thou
hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this
tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy
ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching
the Eternal (visankhâra, Nirvâna), has attained
to the extinction of all desires.