Thag 3.1 - Aṅgaṇikabhāradvāja
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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Verses of the Senior Monks 3.1
The Book of the Threes
Chapter One
Aṅgaṇikabhāradvāja
Seeking purity the wrong way,
I served the sacred fire in a grove.
Not knowing the path to purity,
I practiced endless mortification.
I’ve gained this happiness by means of happiness:
behold the clear rightness of the teaching!
I’ve attained the three knowledges
and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.
I used to be brahmin only by kin,
but now I really am a brahmin!
I am master of the three knowledges, I’m a bathed initiate,
I’m a scholar and a knowledge master.