215. Raṁsisaññaka

I saw the superb Tiger-Bull,
Well-Born-One, on a mountainside,
like the rising hundred-rayed sun,
like the sun when its rays are cool.

The majesty of the Buddha
was shining on the mountainside.
My heart pleased in the rays; for an
aeon I sported in heaven.

In all the subsequent aeons,
goodness was completed by me
because of that mental pleasure,
and remembering the Buddha.

In the thirty thousand aeons
since I obtained that perception,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
the fruit of Buddha-perception.

In the fifty-seventh aeon
there was one lord of the people,
known by the name of Sujāta,
a wheel-turning king with great strength.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Raṁsisaññaka Thera spoke these verses.