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of this unsurpassed bliss of liberation, easily obtained, without difficulty. Oh, if only these five hundred monks also were recipients of this unsurpassed bliss of liberation, easily obtained, without difficulty!’ Then, Ananda, those five hundred monks, living alone, diligent, ardent, resolute, not long thereafter – for the sake of which young men rightly go forth from home to homelessness, that unsurpassed consummation of the holy life – they themselves, having realized it by direct knowledge Having realized and attained, they lived. 'Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what was to be done has been done, there is no further state of being for this world.' they understood. "Thus, Ananda, those five hundred bhikkhus, with Gavesī as their chief, striving for higher and higher, more excellent and more excellent, realized the unsurpassed liberation. Therefore, Ananda, thus should you train: 'Striving for higher and higher, more excellent and more excellent, we shall realize the unsurpassed liberation.' Thus indeed, Ananda, should you train." The Tenth. The Chapter on Lay Followers, the Third. The Summary thereof – Timidity, Fearless, Hell, Enmity, Outcast as the fifth; Joy, Trade, Kings, And Lay Followers, Gavesī.