Verses of the Senior Monks 5.7

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 5.7
2. The Book of the Fives
3. Chapter One
4. Gayākassapa
5. Three times a day—
6. morning, midday, and evening—
7. I plunged into the water at Gayā
8. for the Gayā spring festival.
9. “Any bad things I’ve done
10. in previous lives,
11. I’ll now wash away right here”—
12. such was the view I used to hold.
13. Having heard the fine words,
14. a passage meaningful and principled,
15. I rationally reflected
16. on the true, essential goal.
17. I’ve washed away all bad things;
18. I’m stainless, clean, pristine;
19. the pure heir of the pure one,
20. a true-born son of the Buddha.
21. When I plunged into the eightfold stream,
22. all bad things were washed away.
23. I’ve attained the three knowledges
24. and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.