ace." "But how, dear sir, did you cross over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place?" "When I pushed forward, I was whirled about. When I stayed in place, I sank. And so I crossed over the flood without pushing forward, without staying in place." The devatṅ: "At long last I see a brahman, totally unbound, who without pushing forward, without staying in place, has crossed              over the entanglements of the world." That is what the devatṅ said. The Teacher approved. Realizing that "The Teacher has approved of me," she bowed down to him, circumambulated him—keeping him to her right—and then vanished right there. See also: MN 138; Ud 8:1 - --> - - - -