Who is called Brahman, is Brahman; who is called Brahman, is truly Brahman.

The Dhammapada closes with verse 423 — the last of the Brāhmaṇavagga and of the complete text. Thirteen thousand eight hundred ninety-nine verses in other texts, 423 here, all pointing to the same center.

The path begins with mind, ends with being. One who extinguishes thirst, cultivates virtue, and lives without attachment — that one is Brahman — not by birth, not by ritual, but by being.