Itivuttaka 112
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('â', Tamed, heâs the best of those who can be tamed; calm, the seer of those who can be calmed; released, supreme among those who can be released; crossed, the foremost of those who can cross.â Thus they pay homage to the great one, thoroughly mature: ),
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('â', In this world with its devas, thereâs no one to compare with you.â This, too, was the meaning of what was said by the Blessed One, so I have heard. Notes 1. SN 35:82 defines the "world" as the six sense spheres, their objects, consciousness at those spheres, contact at those spheres, and whatever arises in dependence on that contact, experienced as pleasure, pain, or neither pleasure nor pain. 2. This passage parallels, with one change, the duties appropriate to the four nobles truths: abandoning the origination of stress, realizing its cessation, and developing the path of practice leading to its cessation. The one deviation is that whereas the duty with regard to stress is to comprehend it, here the Tathṅgata is disjoined from the world. See SN 56:11. 3. See §44. 4. These are epithets usually associated with the Great Brahma. See §22. 5. The Brahma-wheel = the Dhamma-wheel, the name of the Buddhaâs first sermon, so called because it contains a "wheel" that lists all twelve combinations of two variables: the four noble truths–stress, its origination, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation–and the three levels of knowledge appropriate to each truth: knowledge of the truth, knowledge of the task appropriate to the truth, and knowledge that the task has been completed. This wheel constitutes the Buddhaâs most central teaching. This itivuttaka is identical with AN 4:23. See also: MN 72; MN 140; MN 146; AN 4:24; AN 10:81; §63; Sn 5:6 - --> - - - -