Sir Lal : He must have fulfilled most of his pāramitā (meaning “setting up the necessary background”) in previous lives.
- In the Jayaddisa Jātaka, Venerable Arahant Angulimala was a cannibal who became a yogi. He changed thanks to the Bodhisatta and decided to renounce the world and became a yogi under the guidance of another great yogi, who was the Venerable Arahant Sāriputta in a past life. He probably developed all jhanas and that’s maybe why it was easy for him to accept the path under the Lord Buddha.