{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn9.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn9.6","id":"suttacentral_sn9.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.6/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time Venerable Anuruddha was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove. Then a certain deity of the company of the thirty-three named Penelope had been Anuruddha\u2019s partner in a former life. She went up to Anuruddha, and recited these verses: \u201cSet your heart there, where you used to live: among the gods of the thirty-three, whose every desire is granted! At the fore of a retinue of divine maidens, you\u2019ll shine!\u201d \u201cDivine maidens are in a sorry state, stuck in substantial reality. And those beings too are in a sorry state, who are attached to divine maidens.\u201d \u201cThey don\u2019t know pleasure who don\u2019t see the Garden of Delight! It\u2019s the abode of lordly gods, the glorious host of Thirty!\u201d \u201cFool, don\u2019t you understand the saying of the perfected ones: All conditions are impermanent, their nature is to rise and fall; having arisen, they cease; their settling is such bliss. O Penelope, weaver of the web\u2014 there are no more abodes for me in the heavenly host. Transmigration through births is finished, now there\u2019ll be no more future lives.\u201d","title":"With Anuruddha","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":185}