Who live up to the Word of the Stainless One!

It is not dust, but anger, that really is the stain:

This—’stain’—is the right word for anger.

’Tis the monks who have put away this stain,

Who live up to the Word of the Stainless One!

It is not dust, but delusion, that really is the stain:

This—’stain’—is the right word for delusion.

’Tis the monks who have put away this stain,

Who live up to the Word of the Stainless One!

And as the stanzas were finished, Little Roadling attained to Arahatship, and with it to the intellectual gifts of an Arahat; and by them he understood all the Scriptures.