Verses of the Senior Nuns 5.7

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1. Verses of the Senior Nuns 5.7
2. The Book of the Fives
3. Sakulā
4. While staying at home
5. I heard the teaching from a monk.
6. I saw the stainless Dhamma,
7. extinguishment, the state that does not pass.
8. Leaving behind my son and my daughter,
9. my riches and my grain,
10. I had my hair cut off,
11. and went forth to homelessness.
12. As a trainee nun,
13. I developed the direct path.
14. I gave up greed and hate,
15. along with associated defilements.
16. When I was fully ordained as a nun,
17. I recollected my past lives,
18. and purified my clairvoyance,
19. immaculate and fully developed.
20. Conditions are born of causes, crumbling;
21. having seen them as other,
22. I gave up all defilements,
23. I’m cooled and quenched.