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- Udana VII.1
- Bhaddiya Sutta
- About Bhaddiya the Dwarf (1)
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I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi,
in Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. At that time Ven. Sariputta was with a variety of approaches instructing, urging,
rousing, and encouraging Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf with Dhamma-talk.
As Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf was, with a variety of approaches, being instructed, urged,
roused, and encouraged by Ven. Sariputta with Dhamma-talk, his mind, through lack of
clinging/sustenance, was released from the effluents.
The Blessed One saw that as Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf was, with a variety of approaches,
being instructed, urged, roused, and encouraged by Ven. Sariputta with Dhamma-talk, his
mind, through lack of clinging/sustenance, was released from the effluents.
Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion
exclaimed:
Above, below, everywhere released,
he does not focus on 'I am this.'
Thus released, he crosses the flood
not crossed before,
for the sake of no further becoming.
See also: Ud VII.2.