The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Third Chapter for Recitation
Now today, Ānanda, at the Cāpāla Shrine the Wicked Māra
approached me, and after approaching he stood on one side. While
standing on one side the Wicked Māra said this to me:
‘May the Gracious One attain Final Emancipation now, reverend Sir,
may the Fortunate One attain Final Emancipation, now is the time,
reverend Sir, for the Gracious One's Final Emancipation. For these
words, reverend Sir, were spoken by the Gracious One:
“I will not attain Final Emancipation, Wicked One, for as long as my
monks are not (true) disciples, accomplished, disciplined, confident,
learned, bearers of the Teaching, practising in conformity with the
Teaching, correct in their practice, living in conformity with the
Teaching, and having learned it from their own teacher, will declare,
reveal, make known, set forth, open up, analyse, make plain - after
giving a good rebuke with reason to the doctrines of others that have
arisen - and teach the miraculous Teaching.”
But at present, reverend Sir, the Gracious One's monks are (true)
disciples, accomplished, disciplined, confident, learned, bearers of the
Teaching, practising in conformity with the Teaching, correct in their
practice, living in conformity with the Teaching, and having learned it
from their own teacher, do declare, reveal, make known, set forth,
open up, analyse, make plain - after giving a good rebuke with reason
to the doctrines of others that have arisen - and teach the miraculous
Teaching.
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