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VATTA SUTTA Oh good people! Let us recite this protective Sutta by the power of which the forest fire avoided the Great Being who was reborn as a quail while fulfilling the perfections for Buddhahood, and which was delivered by the Lord of the World to the Venerable Sariputta, and which lasts for the entire world cycle and which has great power. There are in the world the qualities of morality truthfulness, purity, loving kindness and compassion. By that saying of Truth, I will make an excellent asseveration. Having reflected upon the power of the Dhamma and having remembered the Victorious Ones of old, I made an asseveration relying on the power of truthfulness: "I have wings, but I cannot fly. I have feet, but I cannot walk. My mother and my father have left me. Oh forest fire! Go back (stop)!" As soon as I have made this asseveration, the great flames of the fire avoided me from sixteen karisas, like a fire coming to the water. There is nothing equal to my truthfulness. This is my Perfection of Truthfulness.