1 At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. Now at that time the Buddha was meditating in the open during the dark of night, while a gentle rain drizzled down.
Then Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the Buddha feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, approached him, and crushed some large boulders close by him.
2 Then the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, addressed him in verse:
3 “Even if you shake
this entire Vulture’s Peak,
the rightly released,
the awakened, are unshaken.”
4 Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there.