Theragāthā 202

Verses of the Senior Monks 5.5

The Book of the Fives

Chapter One

Vaḍḍha

1 Oh so well was the goad

shown to me by my mother,

on hearing whose words,

advised by my mother,

energetic and resolute,

I realized supreme awakening.

2 I’m perfected, worthy of offerings,

master of the three knowledges,

seer of freedom from death.

I’ve conquered the army of Namuci,

and live without defilements.

3 Those defilements that were found in me,

internally and externally,

are all cut off without remainder,

and will not arise again.

4 My self-assured sister

said this to me:

‘Now neither you nor I

have any snarls.’

5 Suffering is at an end;

this bag of bones is my last

in the transmigration through births and deaths;

now there’ll be no more future lives.”