དེ་དག་ནི་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པས་བཟུང་བའོ། །
“Ānanda, even during earlier times when I was practicing the conduct of a bodhisattva, others came to see me, desperate and bound by fear, begging me to protect them from their fears, which I did.
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda