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§ 3. Last Meeting between Mother and Son and between Wife and Husband☸💙🧘‍♀️📿

Before their death Mahaprajapati and Yeshodhara met the Blessed Lord☸.

It was probably their last meeting with him.

Mahaprajapati went and first worshipped him.

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She thanked him for having given her the happiness of the good doctrine, for her having been spiritually born through him: for the doctrine having grown in her through him; for her having suckled him,
drinking the Dhamma-milk of him; for her having plunged in and

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crossed over the ocean of becoming through him—what a glorious thing it has been to be known as the mother of the Buddha!

And then she uttered her plea:—

“ I desire to die finally having put away this corpse. O sorrow-ender, permit me.”

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Yeshodhara, addressing the Blessed Lord, said that she was in her seventy-eighth year.

The Blessed Lord☸ replied that he was in his eighties.

She told him that she was to die that very night. Her tone was more self-reliant than that of Mahaprajapati.

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She did not ask his permission to die nor did she go to him to seek him as her refuge.

On the contrary, she said to him (me saranam atthano),

“ I am my own refuge.”

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She had conquered all the cankers in her life.

She came to thank him because it was he who had shown her the way and given her the power.

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