Verses of the Senior Nuns 6.6

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1. Verses of the Senior Nuns 6.6
2. The Book of the Sixes
3. Mahāpajāpati Gotamī
4. Oh Buddha, my hero: homage to you!
5. Supreme among all beings,
6. who released me from suffering,
7. and many other beings as well.
8. All suffering is fully understood;
9. craving—its cause—is dried up;
10. the eightfold path has been developed;
11. and cessation has been realized by me.
12. Previously I was a mother, a son,
13. a father, a brother, and a grandmother.
14. Failing to grasp the true nature of things,
15. I transmigrated without reward.
16. Since I have seen the Blessed One,
17. this bag of bones is my last.
18. Transmigration through births is finished,
19. now there’ll be no more future lives.
20. I see the disciples in harmony,
21. energetic and resolute,
22. always staunchly vigorous—
23. this is homage to the Buddhas!
24. It was truly for the benefit of many
25. that Māyā gave birth to Gotama.
26. He swept away the mass of suffering
27. for those stricken by sickness and death.