{"id":"ud4.9","title":"With Upasena","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"ud4.9","title":"With Upasena","units":[{"id":"ud4.9:0","sourceIds":["ud4.9:0.1","ud4.9:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Udāna 4.9\nUpasenasutta","en":"Heartfelt Sayings 4.9\nWith Upasena"}},{"id":"ud4.9:1","sourceIds":["ud4.9:1.1","ud4.9:1.2","ud4.9:1.3","ud4.9:1.4","ud4.9:1.5","ud4.9:1.6","ud4.9:1.7","ud4.9:1.8","ud4.9:1.9","ud4.9:1.10","ud4.9:1.11","ud4.9:1.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nAtha kho āyasmato upasenassa vaṅgantaputtassa rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi:\n“lābhā vata me, suladdhaṁ vata me,\nsatthā ca me bhagavā arahaṁ sammāsambuddho;\nsvākkhāte camhi dhammavinaye agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajito;\nsabrahmacārino ca me sīlavanto kalyāṇadhammā;\nsīlesu camhi paripūrakārī;\nsusamāhito camhi ekaggacitto;\narahā camhi khīṇāsavo;\nmahiddhiko camhi mahānubhāvo.\nBhaddakaṁ me jīvitaṁ, bhaddakaṁ maraṇan”ti.","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nThen as Venerable Upasena son of Vaṅgantā was in private retreat this thought came to his mind:\n“I’m so fortunate, so very fortunate!\nMy Teacher is the Blessed One, perfected, a fully awakened Buddha.\nWell explained is the teaching and training in which I have gone forth from the lay life to homelessness.\nMy spiritual companions are ethical and of good character.\nI have fulfilled the precepts.\nMy mind is unified and serene.\nI am a perfected one who has ended the defilements.\nI am of great might and power.\nMy life has been good, and my death will be good.”"}},{"id":"ud4.9:2","sourceIds":["ud4.9:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā āyasmato upasenassa vaṅgantaputtassa cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ udānaṁ udānesi:","en":"Then, knowing that Venerable Upasena’s train of thought, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:"}},{"id":"ud4.9:3","sourceIds":["ud4.9:3.1","ud4.9:3.2","ud4.9:3.3","ud4.9:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ jīvitaṁ na tapati,\nmaraṇante na socati;\nSa ve diṭṭhapado dhīro,\nsokamajjhe na socati.","en":"“One who has no guilt in life,\nnor grief at facing death:\nthat attentive one who has seen the truth,\ngrieves not among the grieving."}},{"id":"ud4.9:4","sourceIds":["ud4.9:4.1","ud4.9:4.2","ud4.9:4.3","ud4.9:4.4","ud4.9:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ucchinnabhavataṇhassa,\nsantacittassa bhikkhuno;\nVikkhīṇo jātisaṁsāro,\nnatthi tassa punabbhavo”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"For the mendicant with peaceful mind,\nwho has cut off craving for continued existence,\ntransmigration through births is finished,\nthere’ll be no more future lives for them.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/ud4.9/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}