Senaka (THAG4.6)

Verses of the Senior Monks 4.6

The Book of the Fours

Chapter One

Senaka

It was so welcome for me

during the Gayā spring festival

to see the Awakened One

teaching the supreme Dhamma.

He was glorious, the tutor of a community,

a leader who had realized the highest.

In all the world with its gods,

he was the victor of unequaled vision.

A great giant, a great hero,

a great light free of defilement.

With the utter ending of all defilements,

the Teacher fears nothing from any quarter.

For a long time, sadly, I was corrupted,

fettered by the bond of wrong view.

That Blessed One, Senaka,

released me from all ties.