Therigatha1.11

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Adapted from Archaic Translation By Mrs. Rhys Davids 1909

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1.11 Mutta, daughter and wife of Kosalan brahmins

Mutta, accumulating good merit under former Buddhas, was, in this Buddha-period, born in the land of Kosala as the daughter of a poor brahmin named Oghataka. Coming to proper age, she was given to a hunchbacked brahmin; but she told him she could not continue in the life of the house, and induced him to consent to her leaving the world. She was ordained &exercising herself in insight meditation (Vipassana[1]), her thoughts still ran on external objects of interest. So she practised self-control, and, repeating her verse, strove after insight meditation (Vipassana[1]) till she won Arahantship(enlightenment equal to Buddha); then elated, she repeated:

O free, indeed! O gloriously free Am I in freedom from three crooked things:– From pestle & from my crookbacked husband! and I'm free from rebirth and from death, Yes all that dragged me back is hurled away. (11)

[1] Vipassana : This refers to the foremost insight meditation called 'Vipassana'  taught by Buddha in which attention is focussed on inner phenomenon (breath,body,emotions, sensations & mind) with detachment (samata/equanimity) leading to self-awakening & enlightenment.