Uttarajjhayana 197.1.21_9

197.1.21_9

jāyarūvaṃ jahāmaṭhaṃ | niddhantamalapāvagaṃ /
rāgadosabhayāīyaṃ | taṃ vayaṃ būma māhaṇaṃ ||21||

"He who is exempt from love, hatred, and fear, (and who shines forth) like burnished gold, purified in fire, him we call a Brâhmana. (21)
"A lean, self-subduing ascetic, who reduces his flesh and blood, who is pious and has reached Nirvâna, him we call a Brâhmana. (22)
"He who thoroughly knows living beings, whether they move or not, and does not injure them in any of the three ways, him we call a Brâhmana. (23)
"He who does not speak untruth from anger or for fun, from greed or from fear, him we call a Brâhmana. (24)
"He who does not take anything that is not given him, be it sentient or not sentient, small or large, him we call a Brâhmana. (25)
"He who does not carnally love divine, human, or animal beings, in thoughts, words, or acts, him we call a Brâhmana. (26)
"He who is not defiled by pleasures as a lotus growing in the water is not wetted by it, him we call a Brâhmana. (27)
"He who is not greedy, who lives unknown, who has no house and no property, and who has no friendship with householders, him we call a Brâhmana. (28)
"He who has given up his former connections (with his parents, &c.), with his kinsmen and relations, and who is not given to pleasure, him we call a Brâhmana. (29)
"The binding of animals (to the sacrificial pole), all the Vêdas, and sacrifices, being causes of sin, cannot save the sinner; for his works (or Karman) are very powerful. (30)