In this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—the Realized One is the vanquisher, the unvanquished, the universal seer, the wielder of power. That’s why he’s called the ‘Realized One’.

Directly knowing the whole world as it is, and everything in it, he is detached from the whole world, uninvolved with the whole world.

That attentive one is the vanquisher of all who is released from all ties. He has reached ultimate peace: extinguishment, fearing nothing from any quarter.

He is the Buddha, with defilements ended, untroubled, with doubts cut off. He has attained the end of all deeds, freed with the ending of attachments.

That Blessed One is the Buddha, he is the supreme lion, in all the world with its gods, he turns the divine wheel.

And so those gods and humans, who have gone to the Buddha for refuge, come together and revere him, great of heart and intrepid:

‘Tamed, he is the best of tamers, peaceful, he is the seer among the peaceful, liberated, he is the foremost of liberators, crossed over, he is the most excellent of guides across.’

And so they revere him, great of heart and intrepid. In the world with its gods, he has no rival.”

Numbered Discourses 4.24 3. At Uruvelā At Kāḷaka’s Monastery

At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāketa in Kāḷaka’s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: