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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Chapter</strong> - 68<br />
“Labheyyāma mayaṁ Bhante Bhagavato santike pabbajjaṁ,<br />
“May we receive the going-forth, venerable Sir, in the presence of the Gracious One,<br />
labheyyāma upasampadan.”-ti<br />
may we receive the full ordination.”<br />
“Etha bhikkhavo” ti Bhagavā avoca “svākkhāto Dhammo,<br />
“Come, monks,” said the Gracious One, “the Dhamma has been well-proclaimed,<br />
caratha brahmacariyaṁ sammā dukkhassa antakiriyāyā.” ti<br />
live the spiritual life for the complete ending of suffering.”<br />
Sā va tesaṁ āyasmantānaṁ upasampadā ahosi.<br />
That was these venerable ones’ full ordination.<br />
[Anattalakkhaṇasuttaṁ]<br />
[11: <strong>The</strong> Discourse on the Characteristic of Non-Self]<br />
(<strong>The</strong> First Arahants)<br />
Atha kho Bhagavā pañcavaggiye bhikkhū āmantesi:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the Gracious One addressed the group-of-five monks (saying):<br />
“Rūpaṁ bhikkhave Anattā,<br />
“Bodily form, monks, is not Self, 131<br />
rūpañ-ca hidaṁ bhikkhave Attā abhavissa<br />
for if this bodily form, monks, were Self<br />
na-y-idaṁ rūpaṁ ābādhāya saṁvatteyya, labbhetha ca rūpe:<br />
this bodily form would not lead to affliction, and regarding bodily form it might be<br />
possible (to say):<br />
‘Evaṁ me rūpaṁ hotu, evaṁ me rūpaṁ mā ahosī.’ ti<br />
‘Let my bodily form be thus, let my bodily form be not thus.’<br />
Yasmā ca kho bhikkhave rūpaṁ Anattā,<br />
But because bodily form, monks, is not Self,<br />
tasmā rūpaṁ ābādhāya saṁvattati, na ca labbhati rūpe:<br />
therefore bodily form does lead to affliction, and regarding bodily form it is not<br />
possible (to say):<br />
131 It is the supposed Higher or Cosmic Self that is being denied. <strong>The</strong> first proof of lack of<br />
Self in this sense is that we do not have ultimate control over the constituent parts<br />
(khandha).