32b: The 14th Rains Retreat (Rāhula) – 1057
Āsā yassa na vijjanti, asmiṁ loke paramhi ca,
nirāsāsaṁ visaṁyuttaṁ, tam-ahaṁ brūmi brāhmaṇaṁ.
O my dear sons, my dear monks! In the mental continuum of an Arahat,
whose pollutants (
āsava
) are gone, craving that clings to things does not
exist, not even the minutest part of it, in the present world as well as in the
next, as it has been broken and uprooted through the fourfold path-
knowledge in the manner of abandoning by cutting off (
samuccheda-
pahāna
). The Arahat, whose pollutants (
āsava
) are gone, who is totally
emancipated from the 108fold craving and who is dissociated from every
kind of mental defilement, him naturally do I declare a true Brahmin!
By the end of the Dhamma talk, a large multitude of people attained the fruition
of Stream-entry (
Sotāpatti
) and so on.
As Ven. Sāriputta was misunderstood by the monks who said that Ven. Sāriputta
seemed to have greed, so was Ven. Moggallāna once misunderstood too. His
incident was somewhat similar to that of Ven. Sāriputta. What was different in
the case of Ven. Moggallāna was, after asserting that there was no greed in him,
the Buddha
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gave another verse as follows (Dhp 411):
Yassālayā na vijjanti, aññāya akathaṁkathī,
amatogadham-anuppattaṁ, tam-ahaṁ brūmi brāhmaṇaṁ.
O my dear sons, my dear monks! In the mental continuum of an Arahat
whose pollutants (
āsava
) are gone, craving that clings to things does not
exist, not even the slightest part of it, as it has been broken and uprooted
through the fourfold knowledge in the manner of abandoning by cutting
off (
samuccheda-pahāna
). Having analytically understood the Three
Treasures, the triple training and the dependent origination (
paṭicca-
samuppāda
) wheel in their true nature, he is free from doubt. The Arahat
whose pollutants (
āsava
) are gone, who has plunged wisely into the
deathless Nibbāna and became an Arahat straight away, him naturally do
I declare a true Brahmin.
By the end of this Dhamma talk a large multitude of people attained the fruition
of Stream-entry (
Sotāpatti
) and so on.