sn16.11:9.1 When I had gone forth, I traveled along the road between Rājagaha and Nāḷandā, where I saw the Buddha sitting at the Many Sons Shrine.
sn16.11:9.2 Seeing him, I thought:
sn16.11:9.3 ‘Were I ever to see a Teacher, it would be this Blessed One!
sn16.11:9.4 Were I ever to see a Holy One, it would be this Blessed One!
sn16.11:9.5 Were I ever to see a fully awakened Buddha, it would be this Blessed One!’
sn16.11:9.7 Then I bowed with my head to the Buddha’s feet and said:
sn16.11:9.8 ‘Sir, the Buddha is my Teacher, I am his disciple!
sn16.11:9.9 The Buddha is my Teacher, I am his disciple!’
sn16.11:9.10 The Buddha said to me,
sn16.11:9.11 ‘Kassapa, if anyone was to say to such a wholehearted disciple that they know when they don’t know, or that they see when they don’t see, their head would explode.
sn16.11:9.12 But Kassapa, when I say that I know I really do know; and when I say that I see I really do see.