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Verses of the Senior Monks 5.6 The Book of the Fives Chapter One Nadīkassapa It was truly for my benefit that the Buddha went to the Nerañjara River. When I heard his teaching, I shunned wrong view. I used to perform a diverse spectrum of sacrifices; I served the sacred flame, imagining, “This is purity.” I was a blind, ordinary person. Caught in the thicket of wrong view, deluded by misapprehension. Thinking impurity was purity, I was blind and ignorant. I’ve abandoned wrong view; all rebirths are shattered. I serve the fire for those worthy of a religious donation: I bow to the Realized One. I’ve given up all delusion; craving for continued existence is shattered; transmigration through births is finished; now there’ll be no more future lives.