502. {505.} Pāraphaliya

I saw the golden Sambuddha,
Sacrificial Recipient,
who had entered onto the road,
shining like a dinner-plate tree.

In the ninety-one aeons since
I gave him pāra-fruit back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving fruit.

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 Pāraphaliya Thera spoke these verses.