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Extracted from Ariyapariyesana Sutta (The Noble Search), The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Bhikku Nanamoli and Bhikku Bodhi

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 "Then, bhikkhus, when I had stayed at Uruvela as long as I
chose, I set out to wander by stages to Benares. Between Gaya
and the Place of Enlightenment the Ajivaka Upaka saw me on
the road and said: 'Friend, your faculties are clear, the colour of
your skin is pure and bright. Under whom have you gone forth,
friend? Who is your teacher? Whose Dhamma do you [171] pro-
fess?'

I replied to the Ajivaka Upaka in stanzas:
'I am one who has transcended all, a knower of all,
Unsullied among all things, renouncing all,
By craving's ceasing freed. Having known this all
For myself, to whom should I point as teacher?
I have no teacher, and one like me
Exists nowhere in all the world
With all its gods, because I have
No person for my counterpart.
I am the Accomplished One in the world,
I am the Teacher Supreme.
I alone am a Fully Enlightened One
Whose fires are quenched and extinguished.
I go now to the city of Kasi
To set in motion the Wheel of Dhamma.
In a world that has become blind
I go to beat the drum of the Deathless.'

'By your claims, friend, you ought to be the Universal Victor.'309

'The victors are those like me
Who have won to destruction of taints.
I have vanquished all evil states,
Therefore, Upaka, I am a victor.'

Lord Buddha

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