Thus did the Great Being from mid-air proclaim the Truth and rebuke the band of hermits. Then he passed back to the Brahma Realm, and all those hermits too qualified themselves for rebirth in the same Realm.

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His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saying, "Sariputta was the chief disciple of those days, and I Maha-Brahma."

Footnotes

^240:1 No. 522.

^241:1 One of the highest Attainments was the insight into the nothingness of things; everything being a delusion.

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