457. {460.} Gandhapūjaka (THA-AP462)

When the pyres were constructed
various scents were then gathered.
Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
I offered a handful of scents.

In the hundred thousand aeons
since I worshipped that pyre back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of worshipping pyres.

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

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!

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

Thus indeed Venerable Gandhapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Gandhapūjaka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Jagatī and Morahatthī,
Āsanī, Ukkadhāraka,
Akkamī, Vanakoraṇḍī,
Chattada, Jātipūjaka,
and the elder Paṭṭipupphī,
the tenth is Gandhapūjaka.
There are sixty-seven verses
which are counted by those who know.

The Jagatidāyaka Chapter, the Forty-Sixth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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