Chapter 24. Craving
Verse 20
Global verse #353
I am all-conquering, all-knowing, (and) unattached to all things. All abandoning, freed through the destruction of craving, (and) having by myself thoroughly comprehended (the destruction of craving), whom should I point out (as my teacher)?20
Footnotes
20. These are the words with which according to the Ariyapariyesanā-sutta (Majjhima-Nikāya 26), the Buddha responded when asked by a naked ascetic, shortly after his Enlightenment, who was his teacher.