2.
The First Discourse on Gratification
105.
"I, monks, pursued the quest for gratification in the world.
Whatever gratification there is in the world I attained.
As far as there is gratification in the world that has been well seen by me through wisdom.
I, monks, pursued the quest for danger in the world.
Whatever danger there is in the world I attained.
As far as there is danger in the world that has been well seen by me through wisdom.
I, monks, pursued the quest for escape from the world.
Whatever escape there is from the world I attained.
As far as there is escape from the world that has been well seen by me through wisdom.
As long as I, monks, did not directly know as it really is the gratification of the world as gratification, the danger as danger, and the escape as escape, I did not acknowledge, monks, in the world with its gods, with its Māras, with its Brahmās, among the generation with its ascetics and brahmins, with its gods and humans, that I had fully awakened to the unsurpassed perfect enlightenment.
But when I, monks, directly knew as it really is the gratification of the world as gratification, the danger as danger, and the escape as escape, then I acknowledged, monks, in the world with its gods, with its Māras, with its Brahmās, among the generation with its ascetics and brahmins, with its gods and humans, that I had fully awakened to the unsurpassed perfect enlightenment.
And knowledge and vision arose in me -
'Unshakable is my liberation, this is the last birth, there is now no more rebirth.'
The second.