8. As long as the sun and the moon have not come to be, there is no shining forth of great light, no great radiance. Only darkness and blindness prevail. There is no day or night; no months, fortnights or seasons are distinguishable. But when the sun and the moon have come to be, then there is a shining forth of great light, of great radiance. Darkness and blindness are no more. Days, nights, months, fortnights and seasons are distinguishable.
In the same way, as long as the Tathāgata, the Noble One, the fully enlightened Buddha, has not come to be, there is no shining forth of great light, no great radiance. Only darkness and blindness prevail. There is no proclaiming or teaching, no explaining or setting forth, no opening up, analyzing or illuminating of the Four Noble Truths. But when the Tathāgata, the Noble One, the fully enlightened Buddha has come to be, there is a shining forth of great light, of great radiance; darkness and blindness are no more. There is a proclaiming, a teaching, an explaining, a setting forth, an opening up, an analyzing and illuminating of the Four Noble Truths.
S.V,442 (SN 56.38)
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