Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.131

c8.131

“When I apprehended this,” he is reported to have said of this moment, “and when I beheld this, my soul was released from the evil of desire, released from the evil of earthly existence, released from the evil of error, released from the evil of ignorance. In the released awoke the knowledge of release: extinct is re-birth, finished the sacred course, duty done, no more shall I return to this world; this I knew.”