Difference between revisions of "Anuruddha Sutta"
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| − | I have heard that on one occasion Ven. [[Anuruddha]] was dwelling among the Kosalans in a {{Wiki|forest}} thicket. Now at that [[time]], a [[devata]] 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 | + | I have heard that on one occasion Ven. [[Anuruddha]] was dwelling among the Kosalans in a {{Wiki|forest}} thicket. Now at that [[time]], a [[devata]] 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: |
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I have heard that on one occasion Ven. Anuruddha was dwelling among the Kosalans in a forest thicket. Now at that time, a devata 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 & 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.
