Verses of the Senior Nuns 6.2

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1. Verses of the Senior Nuns 6.2
2. The Book of the Sixes
3. Vāseṭṭhī
4. Struck down with grief for my son,
5. deranged, out of my mind,
6. naked, my hair flying,
7. I wandered here and there.
8. I lived on rubbish heaps,
9. in cemeteries and highways.
10. For three years I wandered,
11. stricken by hunger and thirst.
12. Then I saw the Holy One
13. back at the city of Mithilā.
14. Tamer of the untamed,
15. the Awakened One fears nothing from any quarter.
16. Regaining my mind,
17. I paid homage and sat down.
18. Out of compassion
19. Gotama taught me the Dhamma.
20. After hearing his teaching,
21. I went forth to homelessness.
22. Applying myself to the Teacher’s words,
23. I realized the state of grace.
24. All sorrows are cut off,
25. given up, they end here.
26. I’ve fully understood the basis
27. from which grief comes to be.