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Atha kho Bhagavato etad-ahosi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n this occurred to the Gracious One:<br />
“Mahājāniyo kho Āḷāro Kālāmo,<br />
“Āḷāra Kālāma had great understanding,<br />
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sace hi so imaṁ Dhammaṁ suṇeyya khippam-eva ājāneyyā.” ti<br />
if he had heard this Dhamma he would have understood it quickly.”<br />
Atha kho Bhagavato etad-ahosi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n this occurred to the Gracious One:<br />
“Kassa nu kho ahaṁ paṭhamaṁ Dhammaṁ deseyyaṁ?<br />
“To whom should I first teach the Dhamma?<br />
Ko imaṁ Dhammaṁ khippam-eva ājānissatī?” ti<br />
Who will be able to understand the Dhamma quickly?”<br />
Atha kho Bhagavato etad-ahosi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n this occurred to the Gracious One:<br />
“Ayaṁ kho Uddako Rāmaputto paṇḍito byatto medhāvī,<br />
“This Uddaka Rāmaputta is wise, learned, intelligent,<br />
dīgharattaṁ apparajakkhajātiko.<br />
for a long time he has been one with little dust on his eyes. 98<br />
Yan-nūnāhaṁ Uddakassa Rāmaputtassa paṭhamaṁ Dhammaṁ deseyyaṁ?<br />
Now, what if I first teach the Dhamma to Uddaka Rāmaputta?<br />
So imaṁ Dhammaṁ khippam-eva ājānissatī.” ti<br />
He will be able to understand the Dhamma quickly.”<br />
Atha kho antarahitā devatā Bhagavato ārocesi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n an invisible god informed the Gracious One:<br />
97 Comm: ākiñcaññāyatane nibbatto; (and) arose in the sphere of Nothingness. This is the<br />
cosmic equivalent of the level of meditation that he had taught to the Bodhisatta.<br />
98 Uddaka had been a friend in the spiritual life, and had led a group formed around his<br />
Father Rāma, who had attained the Sphere of Neither-Perception-nor-Non-Perception.