sn41.9:3.1 Then Citta the householder took the naked ascetic Kassapa to see the senior mendicants, and said to them:
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sn41.9:3.2 “Sirs, this is the naked ascetic Kassapa, who in lay life was an old friend of mine.
sn41.9:3.3 May the senior monks give him the going forth, the ordination.
sn41.9:3.4 I’ll make sure that he’s provided with robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick.”
sn41.9:3.5 And the naked ascetic Kassapa received the going forth, the ordination in this teaching and training.
sn41.9:3.6 Not long after his ordination, Venerable Kassapa, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.
sn41.9:3.7 He understood: “Rebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is nothing further for this place.”
sn41.9:3.8 And Venerable Kassapa became one of the perfected.