(Mv.I.13.1) [35] At that time, having spent the Rains, the Blessed One addressed the monks, ”It was from appropriate attention and appropriate right exertion that I attained unexcelled release, that I realized unexcelled release.
”From appropriate attention and appropriate right exertion, you, too, attain[1] unexcelled release — realize unexcelled release.”
(Mv.I.13.2) Then Mara the Evil One went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, recited this verse in his presence:
Then Māra the Evil One — sad & dejected (at realizing), “The Blessed One knows me; the One Well-Gone knows me” — vanished right there.