Then, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to him, 2 “Good fellow, do you know the liberation, emancipation, and seclusion of sentient beings?”
3 “I do, good sir.”
4 “But how is it that you know the liberation, emancipation, and seclusion of sentient beings?”
5 “Due to the ending of relish for rebirth; due to the finishing of perception and consciousness; due to the cessation and stilling of feelings—that, respectable sir, is how I know the liberation, emancipation, and seclusion of sentient beings.”