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the cosmos with its deities, Mārās and gods, with its contemplatives and priests, its royalty and commonfolk." "O! Monks! My liberation from the Cycle of Existence is real and permanent. This is my final lifetime. There will certainly be no new rebirth for me." SECTION 4: THE OUTCOME OF THE SERMON Even without going into detail about how to practice the Eightfold Path, Kondañña was able to focus his mind at the centre of the body. Even though the Buddha didn’t say that he needed to attain the Dhammaikāya, the result of focusing the mind properly, in a sequential way, is to attain the Dhammaikāya automatically. Koñañña had long trained himself in preparation for this attainment. Attaining the Dhammaikāya, Koñañña was able to use the Dhamma-kāya to see and know the Four Noble Truths in the human physical body. The outcome of his attainment (and hence of the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta) was that Koñañña attained Stream-Entry with the realization that: "Whatever thing is of a nature to arise, is of a nature also to cease" And when the Buddha had set in motion the Wheel of the Dhamma, the earth deities cried out: “At Benares, in the Deer Park of Isipatana, the Buddha has set in motion the supreme Wheel of the Dhamma which cannot be denied by any priest or contemplative, deity, Māra or god or anyone in the cosmos.” Hearing the proclamation of the earth deities, the deities of the Catumahārājika Heaven proclaimed the news to the deities of Tavatimsa Heaven. Hearing the proclamation of the Catumahārājika deities, the deities of the Tavatimsa Heaven proclaimed the news 205