138. The Lord said: “It is like a mother hen with eight, ten or a dozen eggs which she has sat on properly, warmed properly and hatched properly. Is the chick which first backs through the shell with claw and beak to safely emerge called the eldest chick or the youngest?”
“Being the first, Lord, it is called the eldest.”
“Even so, having broken through the shell of ignorance for the sake of beings living in ignorance, egg born and enclosed, I am the first in the world, utterly enlightened with the unsurpassed enlightenment. I am the eldest, the highest in the world.”
Vin.III,3 (Parajika 1; AN 8.11)
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