The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Sixth Chapter for Recitation
When the Gracious One attained Final Emancipation along with the
Emancipation Brahmā Sahampati spoke this verse: 182
“All beings in the world will surely lay aside the body,
In the same way the Teacher, Such-like, unmatched in the world,
the Realised One, attained to (the ten) strengths, the Sambuddha,
has attained Final Emancipation.”
When the Gracious One attained Final Emancipation along with the
Emancipation Sakka, the Lord of the Divinities, spoke this verse:
“Impermanent, indeed, are (all) processes, arisen they have the
nature to decay,
After arising they come to cessation, the stilling of them is
blissful.” 183
When the Gracious One attained Final Emancipation along with the
Emancipation venerable Anuruddha spoke these verses:
“There is no more breathing for that Such-like one of steady mind,
Freed from lust, the Sage who has died, has entered the peace (of
Nibbāna).
182 It was Brahmā Sahampati who had requested the newly Awakened Buddha
to preach some 45 years previously.
183 This famous verse is normally chanted by monks at a funeral.
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