{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.130/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.130","id":"suttacentral_an3.130","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.130/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable Anuruddha went up to Venerable S\u0101riputta, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to him: \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, Reverend S\u0101riputta. With clairvoyance that is purified and surpasses the human, I survey the thousandfold galaxy. My energy is roused up and unflagging, my mindfulness is established and lucid, my body is tranquil and undisturbed, and my mind is immersed and unified in sam\u0101dhi. But my mind is not freed from the defilements by not grasping.\u201d \u201cWell, Reverend Anuruddha, when you say: \u2018With clairvoyance that is purified and surpasses the human, I survey the thousandfold galaxy,\u2019 that\u2019s your conceit. And when you say: \u2018My energy is roused up and unflagging, my mindfulness is established and lucid, my body is tranquil and undisturbed, and my mind is immersed in sam\u0101dhi,\u2019 that\u2019s your restlessness. And when you say: \u2018But my mind is not freed from the defilements by not grasping,\u2019 that\u2019s your remorse. It would be good to give up these three things. Ignore them and apply your mind to freedom from death.\u201d After some time Anuruddha gave up these three things. Ignoring them, he applied his mind to freedom from death. Then Anuruddha, living alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute, soon realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lived having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness. He understood: \u201cRebirth is ended; the spiritual journey has been completed; what had to be done has been done; there is nothing further for this place.\u201d And Venerable Anuruddha became one of the perfected.","title":"With Anuruddha (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":282}