thig5.8:0.1Verses of the Senior Nuns 5.8
thig5.8:0.2The Book of the Fives
thig5.8:0.3Soṇā
thig5.8:1.1I gave birth to ten sons
thig5.8:1.2in this form, this bag of bones.
thig5.8:1.3Then, when feeble and old,
thig5.8:1.4I approached a nun.
thig5.8:2.1She taught me the Dhamma:
thig5.8:2.2the aggregates, sense fields, and elements.
thig5.8:2.3When I heard her teaching,
thig5.8:2.4I shaved off my hair and went forth.
thig5.8:3.1When I was a trainee nun,
thig5.8:3.2my clairvoyance was clarified,
thig5.8:3.3and I knew my past lives,
thig5.8:3.4the places I used to live.
thig5.8:4.1I meditate on the signless,
thig5.8:4.2my mind unified and serene.
thig5.8:4.3I achieved the immediate liberation,
thig5.8:4.4quenched by not grasping.
thig5.8:5.1The five aggregates are fully understood;
thig5.8:5.2they remain, but their root is cut.
thig5.8:5.3Curse you, wretched old age!
thig5.8:5.4now there’ll be no more future lives.