Having seen the chief of all trees,
the trumpet-flower Bodhi tree
of Vipassi, the Blessed One,
I brought pleasure to my heart there.Having taken a broom with me,
I always swept that Bodhi tree.
After sweeping that Bodhi tree,
I worshipped the trumpet-flower.Bringing pleasure to my heart there,
hands pressed together on my head,
praising that Bodhi tree I then,
crouched over, departed from there.Going along a walking path,
remembering the supreme tree,
at that time a python crushed me,
of frightful form, extremely strong.Due to the fruit of my karma,
being near death I was happy.
The python swallowed my body;
I delighted in the gods’ world.My mind is always undisturbed,
well-purified and very clear.
I do not know arrows of grief,
nor any torment in my heart.I do not get the itch, ringworm,
rashes, abscesses, leprosy,
epilepsy and scabies too:
that is the fruit of sweeping up.Grief as well as lamentation
are not known in this heart of mine.
My mind’s upright and unattached:
that is the fruit of sweeping up.My mind is pure, I do not cling
when in the meditative states.
Whichever of those states I want,
it always comes to be for me.I’m not attached to lustful ways
and also not to hateful ones;
not bewildered in ignorance:
that is the fruit of sweeping up.In the ninety-one aeons since
I did that karma at that time,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of sweeping up.My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!
Thus indeed Venerable Sakiṁsammajjaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Sakiṁsammajjaka Thera is finished.