449. {452.} Morahatthiya

Collecting some peacock feathers,
I then approached the World-Leader.
Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
I gave him those peacock feathers.

Through those peacock feathers, given
with intention and firm resolve,
the three fires are blown out in me;
I’m receiving huge happiness.

O! the Buddha! O! the Teaching!
O! our Teacher’s great achievement!
Having given peacock feathers,
I’m receiving huge happiness.

The three fires are blown out in me;
all new existence is destroyed;
all the defilements are exhausted,
I am now living, undefiled.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I gave him that donation then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of peacock feathers.

My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.

Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!

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

Thus indeed Venerable Morahatthiya Thera spoke these verses.