Did Gotama (the Buddha) practise incest?

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A worldling without a knowledge of past lives would not see that as "incest".

At Sāvatthī.
“Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning.
It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your mother.
Why is that?
Transmigration has no known beginning.
This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”

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