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In truth, in righteousness (dhamma), in self-taming, and in restraint,
in purity, in devotion to virtue (sīlālaya), and in the uposatha observances,
delighting in harmlessness toward living beings and in non-violence,
undertaking these firmly, he practiced them on every side.
By that deed he departed to the Third Heaven (tidiva),
where he experienced happiness, play, and delights;
passing away from there and coming back here again,
he touched the earth with even feet.
The interpreters of marks, assembled together, declared:
for one whose stance is so evenly planted there is no thwarting,
whether as a householder or as one gone forth—
that mark is the illuminator of that meaning.
Dwelling in the home, he cannot be thwarted:
vanquishing his adversaries, he is not to be crushed by foes;
here he cannot be thwarted by anyone human,
through the fruit of that deed (kamma).
But if such a one takes up the going forth (pabbajjā),
clear-sighted, delighting in the desire for renunciation (nekkhamma),
he, the foremost, assuredly never comes to be thwarted:
he is supreme among men—for this is his nature (dhammatā).
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.