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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Linked Discourses

Vol 1:
Verses
SN1-11
Vol 2:
Causation
SN12-21
Vol 3:
Aggregates
SN22-34
Vol 4:
Sense Bases
SN35-44
Vol 5:
Great Book
SN45-56

21. Bhikkhusaṁyutta: With Monks

I. Monks — SN21.5: With Sujāta

1At Sāvatthī.

Then Venerable Sujāta went to see the Buddha.

The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance, and addressed the mendicants: “This gentleman is beautiful in both ways. He’s attractive, good-looking, lovely, of surpassing beauty. And he has realized the supreme end 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.”


That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:

2“This mendicant is truly beautiful.
His heart is upright,
he’s unfettered, detached,
extinguished by not grasping.
He carries his final body,
having vanquished Māra and his mount.”

1Sāvatthiyaṁ vihārati.

Atha kho āyasmā sujāto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami.

Addasā kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ sujātaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ. Disvāna bhikkhū āmantesi: "ubhayenevāyaṁ, bhikkhave, kulaputto sobhati – yañca abhirūpo dassanīyo pāsādiko paramāya vaṇṇapokkharatāya samannāgato, yassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihāratī"ti.


Idamavoca bhagavā … pe … satthā: 

2"Sobhati vatāyaṁ bhikkhu,
ujubhūtena cetasā;
Vippayutto visaṁyutto,
anupādāya nibbuto;
Dhāreti antimaṁ dehaṁ,
jetvā māraṁ savāhinin"ti.

Pañcamaṁ.