Seeing the significance of this, the Buddha uttered a heartfelt exclamation: “When things become clear To the energetic brahmin who practices absorption, He defeats the army of the Lord of Death, Like the sun beaming in the sky.” The account with the Bodhi tree is finished. 2. The account with the goatherd’s banyan tree After seven days, the Buddha came out from that stillness and went from the Bodhi tree to a goatherd’s banyan tree. There too he sat cross-legged for seven days without moving, experiencing the bliss of freedom. Then a brahmin devoted to mystical mantras went up to the Buddha, exchanged pleasantries with him,