Three times a day—
morning, midday, and evening—
I plunged into the water at Gayā
for the Gayā spring festival.

“Any bad things I’ve done
in previous lives,
I’ll now wash away right here”—
such was the view I used to hold.

Having heard the fine words,
a passage meaningful and principled,
I rationally reflected
on the true, essential goal.

I’ve washed away all bad things;
I’m stainless, clean, pristine;
the pure heir of the pure one,
a true-born son of the Buddha.

When I plunged into the eightfold stream,
all bad things were washed away.
I’ve attained the three knowledges
and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.

The Minor Discourses

|_【8】 Verses of the Senior Monks

|__E. The Book Of The Fives

|___I. Chapter One

Thag5.7 Gayākassapa

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