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Linked Discourses · SN 21.5

  • Linked Discourses 21.5Saṁyutta Nikāya 21.5
  • 1. Monks1. Bhikkhuvagga

With SujātaSujātasutta

At Sāvatthī.Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.

Then Venerable Sujāta went to the Buddha.Atha kho āyasmā sujāto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami.

The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance,Addasā kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ sujātaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ. and addressed the mendicants:Disvāna bhikkhū āmantesi: “This gentleman shines in both ways.“ubhayenevāyaṁ, bhikkhave, kulaputto sobhati— He’s attractive, good-looking, lovely, of surpassing beauty. And he has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”yañca abhirūpo dassanīyo pāsādiko paramāya vaṇṇapokkharatāya samannāgato, yassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharatī”ti.

That is what the Buddha said.Idamavoca bhagavā …pe… Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:satthā:

“This mendicant truly shines.“Sobhati vatāyaṁ bhikkhu, His heart is upright,ujubhūtena cetasā; he’s unfettered, detached,Vippayutto visaṁyutto, quenched by not grasping.anupādāya nibbuto; He bears his final body,Dhāreti antimaṁ dehaṁ, having vanquished Māra with his legions.”jetvā māraṁ savāhinin”ti.

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