Therigatha3.1

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Adapted from Archaic Translation By Mrs. Rhys Davids 1909

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3.1 Another Sama, Daughter Of A Clansman Of Kosambi

She also, accumulating good merit (karma) like the previous, was born, in the time of Vipassi Buddha, as a fairy on the banks of the River Chandabhaga. Living life as fairy, she saw one day the Master(Buddha) walking on the bank, that he might sow the good seed(righteousness) among creatures. And with great glee she worshipped, offering flowers. For this she gained rebirth among gods(angels) and men, till, in this Buddha-period, she took birth in a clansman's family at Kosambi. She too became the friend of Samavati, and she too, out of grief at the death of the latter, entered the Order. She too could not gain self-mastery for twenty-five years, till in her old age she heard a timely sermon, through which her insight meditation(Vipassana[1]) progressed and she won Arahantship(enlightenment equal to Buddha), with thorough grasp of the Dhamma in form and meaning. On that looking back, she broke forth:

Full five-and-twenty years since I was ordained! But in my troubled mind in no way yet Could I obtain the equanimity(Samatha) (39) The peace of mind, the governance of thoughts Long tried to obtain, I found not; and then with torrents of thrill, I dwelt in discipline of the Conqueror(Buddha's) .148 (40) Freed myself from all Suffering I strove without sloth, and won! Craving is dead, and Buddha's discipline is fulfilled. To-day is now the seventh day since I withered up within, that ancient craving(of material desires). (41)

[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.