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."
