Shed to Transform!

Like a medicine stops the creep of a serpent’s venom, they remove anger;

Like water streams off a lotus, they repel lust;

Like a fierce river’s flow is completely dammed dry, they stop craving;

Like floods wash away bridges of grass, they destroy conceit entirely;

Like a seeker of rare flowers on the Udumbara tree, they find no essence in rebirths;

They keep no grudges inwardly, since this “being-not being” has gone beyond;

Within them thoughts no longer smolder, internally they are curtailed completely;

They neither go too far nor lag behind; 

They have gone beyond all mind-proliferation;

They are free of greed, lust, hate and delusion; 

They are of the world and has known, “all is not thus”;

Within them they have no latent tendencies — whose roots of evil are expunged;

Within them they have no anxiety to cause return to this existence here;

Within them they have no attachments to cause return to all existences;

They leave behind the five hindrances and become serene, having crossed beyond doubt and lack inner barbs;

— Such a Bhikkhu leaves the near and far shore like a snake sheds their skin!

The Snake Uragasutta Snp 1.1