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Saṃyutta Nikāya
I. Sagatha Vagga
9. Vana Saṃyutta

Sutta 6

Anuruddha Sutta

Anuruddha

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Proofed against and modified in accordance with the revised edition at dhammatalks.org
Provenance, terms and conditons

 


 

[6.1][pts] I have heard that on one occasion Ven. Anuruddha was dwelling among the Kosalans in a forest grove.

Now at that time, a devatā from the retinue of the heaven of the Thirty-three named Jalini, one of Ven. Anuruddha's former consorts, went to him and, on arrival, addressed him with this verse:

"Direct your mind
to where you used to live,
among the devas of the Thirty-three,
empowered
    with all sensual pleasures.
Honored, surrounded
    by deva maidens,
you
    will shine."

[Ven. Anuruddha:]

"They've gone astray,
deva maidens
established in self-identity.
And they've gone astray,
those beings with deva maidens
    as their aim."

[Jalini:]

"They don't know bliss
who haven't seen Nandana,
abode of the eminent devas,
    glorious,
of the Thirty-three."

[Ven. Anuruddha:]

"You fool, don't you know
the arahants' maxim? —

'How inconstant are compounded things!
Their nature:     to arise and pass away.
They disband     as they are arising.
    Their total stilling     is bliss.'

Jalini, there is now
in deva company
no further abode
[for me].
With the utter ending
of wandering on in birth,
there is now
no further becoming."

 


 

See also:
SN 5.7;
SN 6.15
AN 3.129. [DTO #126]

 


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