453. {456.} Vanakoraṇḍiya

Taking wild koraṇḍa flowers,
I offered them to the Buddha
named Siddhattha, the Blessed One,
the World’s Best One, the Neutral One.

In the ninety-four aeons since
I offered him that flower then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.

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 Vanakoraṇḍiya Thera spoke these verses.