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Captivated by his virtues,

men abandoned relatives and possessions

at the news he had become a renouncer,

entering his instruction as if it were perfection itself.

He taught his disciples as best as he could

in virtue, integrity, purification of the senses,

maintenance of awareness, detachment,

loving kindness and other mental concentrations.

His throng of disciples became huge and most of them attained perfection. By laying down the beautiful path and establishing the world on the virtuous road of renunciation, it was as if the gates to hell had been closed and the paths to heaven had become as broad as royal highways. One day the Great One* happened to be wandering around mountain caves and thickets that were conducive to meditation, enjoying his surroundings in the company of Ajita, a disciple of his at the time.

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There, in a mountain cave,

he saw a young tigress

undergoing birth pains,

hardly able to move.

Her eyes sunken,

her belly emaciated by hunger,

she looked at her cubs, her own offspring,

as if they were food.

Trusting their mother, the cubs fearlessly

sidled up to her, craving her teats,

only to be terrified by her fierce, roaring howls,

menacing them as though they were foes.