8.
The Discourse on the Perfectly Enlightened One
498.
"There are, monks, these six faculties.
What are the six?
The eye-faculty, the ear-faculty, the nose-faculty, the tongue-faculty, the body-faculty, the mind faculty.
As long as I, monks, did not directly know as it really is the origin, passing away, gratification, danger, and escape of these six faculties, 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 origin, passing away, gratification, danger, and escape of these six faculties, 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 eighth.