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mastership of the Sugata; for we were contented with a little of Nirvâna; we required nothing higher, nor even cared for it.
44. But the Friend of the world has taught us better: 'This is no blessed Rest[1] at all; the full knowledge of the highest men[2], that is blessed Rest, that is supreme beatitude.'
45. After hearing this sublime, grand, splendid, and matchless prediction, O Lord, we are greatly elated with joy, when thinking of the prediction (we shall have to make to each other) in regular succession.
