377. {380.} Kāsumāriphaladāyaka (THA-AP382)

I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,
the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,
sitting down on a mountainside,
shining like a dinner-plate tree.

Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
hands pressed together on my head,
gathering kāsumāri fruit,
I gave it to the Best Buddha.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I gave that fruit to the Buddha,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving fruit.

Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!

My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Kāsumāriphaladāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kāsumāriphaladāyaka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Bodhi and Pāṭalipupphi,
Uppali, Sattapaṇṇiya,
Gandhamuṭṭhi and Citaka,
Tāla, Sumanadāmaka,
and Kāsumāriphala too:
one fewer than sixty verses.

The Bodhivandaka Chapter, the Thirty-Eighth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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