The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fifth Chapter for Recitation
For a long time, Ānanda, you dwelt near to the Realised One with
beneficial, pleasant, trustworthy, 155 and limitlessly friendly bodily
actions, with beneficial, pleasant, trustworthy, and limitlessly friendly
speech actions, with beneficial, pleasant, trustworthy, and limitlessly
friendly mental actions, you have done meritorious deeds, Ānanda, you
should devote yourself to quickly striving to be one who is pollutantfree!”
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Then the Gracious One addressed the monks, (saying): “Whoever were
Worthy Ones, Perfect Sambuddhas in the past, monks, for those
Gracious Ones also there were such superior attendants, just as Ānanda
is for me; whoever will be Worthy Ones, Perfect Sambuddhas in the
future, monks, for those Gracious Ones also there will be such superior
attendants, just as Ānanda is for me.
Ānanda is wise, monks, Ānanda is intelligent, monks, he knows: ‘This
is the time for monks to approach and see the Realised One, this is the
time for monks, this is the time for nuns, this is the time for laymen,
this is the time for laywomen, this is the time for kings, for kings'
ministers, for outside teachers, for the disciples of outside teachers.’
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155 One of the meanings of dvaya is duplicitous; therefore a-dvaya means
trustworthy.
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