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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 217<br />

110. ‘He shall become a universal monarch, a king of kings, and even<br />

a ruler among the guardians of the world, an Indra ruler of the gods,<br />

and even the ruler of the Yāma heaven,<br />

111. ‘Yea, the ruler of the Tuṣita heaven, and the ruler of the<br />

Sunirmitāḥ, and the king of the Vaśavartinaḥ, and the lord of the<br />

Brahmaloka;<br />

112. ‘Yea, Mahābrahman, the highest of Sages, and in the end he shall<br />

even become a Buddha, – he, possessing a thoroughly pure<br />

intelligence, shall obtain these eight sublime rewards of merit.<br />

113. ‘And he who, thoroughly intent, with a believing heart, and filled<br />

with faith and devotion, shall hear this method of the Law as it is<br />

preached,<br />

114. ‘He shall have his intellect made perfectly pure, his mind calmed<br />

with boundless charity, and his soul happy with boundless compassion,<br />

and he shall be filled with boundless joy;<br />

115. ‘His soul constantly calm with universal indifference, rejoicing in<br />

the four contemplations, having reached the ecstatic state of absolute<br />

indifference, and with his senses abolished,<br />

116. ‘With the five transcendent faculties attained, and destroying the<br />

aggregate of latent impressions, he, endowed with supernatural<br />

powers, will attain the samādhi called Sūraṅgama.

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