34a: The 17th Rains Retreat (Beauty) – 1137
commonly subject to,” and the perception of impermanence (
anicca-saññā
)
arose in her; following which the perception of
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suffering (
dukkha-saññā
)
and the perception of non-self (
anatta-saññā
) also occurred to her. The three
kinds of existences manifested to her, making her helpless like a blazing house.
Then the Buddha, coming to know that Ven. Nandā was engaged in meditation,
uttered the following verses that were most appropriate to her (DhpA PTS
3.118):
Āturaṁ asuciṁ pūtiṁ, passa Nande samussayaṁ,
uggharantaṁ paggharantaṁ, bālānaṁ abhipatthitaṁ.
Yathā idaṁ tathā etaṁ, yathā etaṁ tathā idaṁ,
dhātuto suññato passa, mā lokaṁ punar-āgami,
bhave chandaṁ virājetvā, upasanto carissati.
Dear daughter Nandā! Behold carefully with the eye of wisdom, the body
which is constantly painful, impure, stale, having a flow of filth going
upwards and downwards, that body only fools are highly fond of.
Dear daughter Nandā, as this internal body is subject to impermanence,
suffering, etc., so is the external body. As that external body you have
seen, discards all its various stages and comes to the state of being swollen,
etc., so will this internal body of yours discard all its various stages and
come to the state of being swollen, etc.
With the eye of insight (
vipassanā
) see both the internal and external
bodies as devoid of such elements as earth or self and things associated
with self. Do not desire to come again to the world of the five aggregates
of attachment. Eradicate in the mode of abandoning by cutting off
(
samuccheda-pahāna
) your craving for the three existences of the sense-
realm (
kāma
), form-realm (
rūpa
) and formless-realm (
arūpa
). If you have
eradicated these, you will abide with all the heat of your moral
defilements quenched.
At the end of the verse Ven. Janapadakalyāṇī Nandā was established in Stream-
entry (
Sotāpatti-phala
). Then did the Buddha give the Discourse about Victory
(
Vijaya-sutta
) teaching in order to preach insight
meditation (
vipassanā
) with
the accompaniment of voidness (
suññatā
) so that Ven. Nandā might reach the
higher paths and fruitions.
The Buddha gave this Discourse about Victory
(
Vijaya-sutta
) firstly, to
Janapadakalyāṇī when he was in his fifth or sixth year after his