Sona: With Many Children

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Khuddaka
Therigatha

Thig 5.8

translated from the Pali by

Hellmuth Hecker & Sister Khema

Alternate translation: Thanissaro

Ten children having borne from this bodily congeries, so I, now weak and old, approached a Bhikkhuni. The Dhamma she taught me — groups, sense-spheres and elements, I heard the Dhamma, and having shaved my hair, went forth. While still a probationer I purified the eye divine; Former lives I knew, and where I lived before. One-pointed, well-composed, the Signless I developed, immediately released, unclinging now and quenched! Knowing the five groups well, they still exist; but with their roots removed. Unmovable am I, on a stable basis sure, now rebirth is no more.

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How to cite this document (a suggested style): "Sona: With Many Children" (Thig 5.8), translated from the Pali by Hellmuth Hecker & Sister Khema. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 4 August 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/thig/thig.05.08.hekh.html .

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