SNP5.15 — The Question of the Student Posāla
He who reveals the past,
(said the venerable Posāla),
who is unstirred and has cut off doubt,
who has gone to the far shore of all phenomena—
I have come to him with a question.
For one whose perception of form has vanished,
who has abandoned all bodies,
who sees, internally and externally,
that there is nothing:
I ask the Sakyan about his knowing:
how is such a one to be guided further?
Directly knowing all stations of consciousness,
(said the Blessed One, Posāla),
the Realized One knows one who stands there,
who is freed, and destined for that.
Having known the arising of the state of nothingness,
and that relishing is a fetter;
directly knowing this thus,
he then sees clearly right there.
This is the true knowing of that
brahmin who has lived the holy life.
The fourteenth question, of the student Posāla.