The monk who has cut off craving ...

The monk who has cut off craving without leaving a trace, as if he had dried up a swift-flowing stream, sloughs off the near shore & far* — as a snake, its decrepit old skin.

* Near and far shores are thought to be here the five lower and higher fetters**

**Fetters- See labels below

Uraga Sutta: The Snake

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.01.than.html