"Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as
it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance
and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal
Buddhahood. Thus, O disciples, I am the eldest, the noblest of
beings. 22
"But what ye speak, O disciples, is it not even that which ye
have yourselves known, yourselves seen, yourselves realised?" 23