Thig 5.8 Soṇā

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Thig 5.8 - Soṇā
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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Verses of the Senior Nuns 5.8
The Book of the Fives
Soṇā
I gave birth to ten sons
in this form, this bag of bones.
Then, when feeble and old,
I approached a nun.
She taught me the Dhamma:
the aggregates, sense fields, and elements.
When I heard her teaching,
I shaved off my hair and went forth.
When I was a trainee nun,
my clairvoyance was clarified,
and I knew my past lives,
the places I used to live.
I meditate on the signless,
my mind unified and serene.
I achieved the immediate liberation,
quenched by not grasping.
The five aggregates are fully understood;
they remain, but their root is cut.
Curse you, wretched old age!
now there’ll be no more future lives.