Verses of the Senior Nuns 7.2

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1. Verses of the Senior Nuns 7.2
2. The Book of the Sevens
3. Cālā
4. “As a nun with developed faculties,
5. having established mindfulness,
6. I penetrated that peaceful state,
7. the blissful stilling of conditions.”
8. “In whose name did you shave your head?
9. You look like an ascetic,
10. but you don’t approve any creed.
11. Why do you live as if lost?”
12. “Followers of other creeds
13. rely on their views.
14. They don’t understand the Dhamma,
15. for they’re no experts in the Dhamma.
16. But there is one born in the Sakyan clan,
17. the unrivaled Buddha;
18. he taught me the Dhamma
19. for going beyond views.
20. Suffering, suffering’s origin,
21. suffering’s transcendence,
22. and the noble eightfold path
23. that leads to the stilling of suffering.
24. After hearing his words,
25. I happily did his bidding.
26. I’ve attained the three knowledges
27. and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.
28. Relishing is destroyed in every respect,
29. and the mass of darkness is shattered.
30. So know this, Wicked One:
31. you’re beaten, terminator!”