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# Therigatha

## Chapter II -- Pairs of Verses

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II.3 -- Sumangala's Mother {vv. 23-24}
[Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans.]

> So freed! So freed!
> So thoroughly freed am I --
> from my pestle,
> my shameless husband
> & his sun-shade making,
> my moldy old pot
> with its water-snake smell.
> Aversion & passion
> I cut with a chop.
> Having come to the foot of a tree,
> I meditate, absorbed in the bliss:
> "What bliss!"

Revised: Fri 12 April 2002