{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/thag/thag4.htm","path":"bud/thag/thag4.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/thag/thag4.htm","text":"Note: Unless otherwise indicated, these suttas were translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In both ways \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \nconsummate,[1]\nI'm known as Rahula\nthe Fortunate:\nbecause I'm the son of the Buddha,\nbecause I've the eye that sees Dhammas,\nbecause my fermentations are ended,\nbecause I've no further becoming.\nI'm deserving of offerings,\na worthy one\na three-knowledge man,[2]\nwith sight\nof the Deathless.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Those\nblinded \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by sensuality\ncovered \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by the net,\nveiled \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by the veil of craving,\nbound \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by the Kinsman of the heedless,[3]\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are like fish in the mouth of a trap.\nThrowing that sensuality aside,\ncutting through Mara's bond,\npulling out craving, root & all,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cooled am I,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unbound.\n2. One with knowledge of past lives, knowledge of the passing away and rearising of living beings, and knowledge of the ending of mental fermentations. [Go back]","title":"Theragatha IV","type":"page"}