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dwelling alone, secluded, diligent, ardent, resolute, not long thereafter, by realizing it for himself with direct knowledge, he attained and abode in that unsurpassed goal of the holy life, for the sake of which sons of good families rightly go forth from the home life into homelessness. He knew directly: “Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what was to be done has been done, there is no more of this state.” And Venerable Kassapa became one of the Arahants. The Great Lion's Roar Discourse, the eighth, is finished.