HE WHO IS WORTHY

In Buddhism, a person who has reached the end of the Eightfold Path, who has perfected the Eightfold Path, is now called an arahat, a Buddhist saint.  This is the state of "he who is worthy." 

He has conquered "the three intoxications" that is sensuality, ignorance, and the "thirst" or attachment leading to rebirth.  His is the higher insight, termed sambodhi, experienced as joy, energy, calm, benevolence, and heightened concentration.

Already having a foretaste of Nirvana, the arahat's joy is deep.  His energy is strictly spiritual now.  He no longer feels suffering, and derives no pleasure from earthly delights.  He says, all the while, "I do not wish for death, I do not wish for life."

He awaits with calm contentment and without fear or anxiety the "putting out of his lamp of life," that is the entrance into final Nirvana at death.  Precisely what this final state will be, he does not particularly care.  Nor does the Buddha detail it.  All that matters to him is that he is no longer unhappy.