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The Discourse on Before Enlightenment
104.
"Before the enlightenment, monks, while still unenlightened, being just a Bodhisatta, this occurred to me -
'What indeed is the gratification in the world, what is the danger, what is the escape?'
This occurred to me, monks -
'Whatever happiness and pleasure arises dependent on the world, this is the gratification in the world.
That the world is impermanent, suffering, subject to change, this is the danger in the world.
Whatever is the removal of desire and lust, the abandoning of desire and lust regarding the world, this is the escape from the world.'
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 first.