Harnessed to sensual pleasure, you undergo endless pain, along with much mental anguish: relinquish sensual pleasures, they don’t last!

When the unaging is there to be found, what good are sensual pleasures in which is old age? All rebirths everywhere are bonded to death and sickness.

This is freedom from old age, freedom from death! This is freedom from old age and death, the sorrowless state! Free of enmity, unconstricted, faultless, fearless, without tribulations.

This freedom from death has been realized by many; even today it can be obtained by those who rationally apply themselves; but it’s impossible if you don’t try.”

So said Sumedhā, lacking delight in conditioned things. Soothing Anīkaratta, Sumedhā cast her hair on the ground.

Standing up, Anīkaratta raised his cupped palms to her father and begged: “Let go of Sumedhā, so that she may go forth! She will see the truth of liberation.”

Released by her mother and father, she went forth, afraid of grief and fear. While still a trainee nun <j>she realized the six direct knowledges, along with the highest fruit.

The extinguishment of the princess was incredible and amazing; on her deathbed, she declared her several past lives.

“In the time of the Buddha Koṇāgamana, we three friends gave the gift of a newly-built dwelling in the Saṅgha’s monastery.