The brāhmaṇa's task and the one gone to the far shore

Śag_12.1

This is the task to be done by the {{brāhmaṇa:true brāhmaṇa|the saint or arhat}}, who is tireless: abandoning, for the sake of the utter abandoning of sensual desires; for such a one yearns not for [renewed] becoming.

Śag_12.2

[Only so long as] there is a task for the brāhmaṇa [is it to be done]; the brāhmaṇa whose aim is accomplished is reckoned [as having finished his work].

Śag_12.3

As long as he finds no foothold and no shore, just so long he strives [to swim] with all his limbs; but having gained the shore here, he stands fast on dry ground and strives no more—he is called "gone to the far shore."

Śag_12.4

This, O Dāmali, is a simile for the brāhmaṇa: one whose cankers are destroyed, prudent, an attainer of meditative absorption—all his fevers of grief are abandoned, who is rightly mindful and whose mind is liberated.