{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_thag16.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_thag16.9","id":"suttacentral_thag16.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/thag16.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"Leaving my mother and father behind, as well as sisters, kinsmen, and brothers; having given up the five sensual stimuli, Anuruddha practices absorption. Surrounded by song and dance, awakened by cymbals and gongs, he did not find purification while delighting in M\u0101ra\u2019s domain. But he has gone beyond all that, and delights in the Buddha\u2019s teaching. Having crossed over the entire flood, Anuruddha practices absorption. Sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and touches so delightful: having crossed over these as well, Anuruddha practices absorption. Returning from almsround, alone, without partner, seeking rags from the dust heap, Anuruddha is without defilements. The thoughtful sage selected rags from the dust heap; he picked them up, washed, dyed, and wore them; Anuruddha is without defilements. The principles of someone who has many wishes and is not content, who socializes and is conceited, are wicked and corrupting. But someone who is mindful, few of wishes, content and untroubled, delighting in seclusion, joyful, always resolute and energetic; their principles are skillful, on the side of awakening; they are without defilements\u2014 so said the great seer. \u201cKnowing my thoughts, the supreme Teacher in the world came to me in a mind-made body, using his psychic power. He taught me more than I had thought of. The Buddha who loves non-proliferation taught me non-proliferation. Understanding that teaching, I happily did his bidding. I\u2019ve attained the three knowledges, and have fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. For the last fifty-five years I have not lain down to sleep. Twenty-five years have passed since I eradicated drowsiness.\u201d \u201cThere was no more breathing for the unaffected one of steady heart. Imperturbable, committed to peace, the Clear-eyed One was fully quenched. He put up with painful feelings without flinching. The liberation of his heart was like the extinguishing of a lamp.\u201d \u201cNow these touches and the other four are the last to be experienced by the sage; nor will there be other phenomena since the Buddha was fully quenched. O Penelope, weaver of the web\u2014 there\u2019s no more abodes in the heavenly host. Transmigration through births is finished, now there\u2019ll be no more future lives.\u201d \u201cThe mendicant by whom the galaxy with the age of the Divinity are known in an hour\u2014 that master of psychic ability sees the gods at the time they pass away and are reborn.\u201d \u201cIn the past I was Annabh\u0101ra, a poor carrier of fodder. I practiced as an ascetic, the renowned Upari\u1e6d\u1e6dha. Then I was reborn in the Sakyan clan, where I was known as \u2018Anuruddha\u2019. Surrounded by song and dance, I was awakened by cymbals and gongs. Then I saw the Buddha, the Teacher, fearing nothing from any quarter; filling my mind with confidence in him, I went forth to homelessness. I know my past lives, the places I used to live. I was born as Sakka, and stayed among the thirty-three gods. Seven times I was a king of men ruling a kingdom, victorious in the four quarters, lord of the Black Plum Tree Land. Without rod or sword, I governed by principle. Seven from here, seven from there\u2014 fourteen transmigrations in all. I shall remember my past lives: at that time I stayed in the realm of the gods. I have gained complete tranquility in immersion with five factors. Peaceful, serene, my clairvoyance is purified. Steady in five-factored absorption, I know the passing away and rebirth of beings, their coming and going, their lives in this state and that. I\u2019ve served the Teacher and fulfilled the Buddha\u2019s instructions. The heavy burden is laid down, the leash to existence is eradicated. In the Vajjian village of Ve\u1e37uva, my life will come to an end. Beneath a thicket of bamboos, being undefiled, I will be fully extinguished.\u201d","title":"Anuruddha","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":619}