Jātaka Tales 134

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Jhānasodhana-Jātaka

“With conscious.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about the interpretation by Sariputta, Captain of the Faith, at the gate of Samkassa town, of a problem tersely propounded by the Master. And the following was the story of the past he then told.

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Once on a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares,...d&e.... the Bodhisatta, as he expired in his forest-home, exclaimed, ‘“Neither conscious nor unconscious.”...... And the recluses did not believe the interpretation which the Bodhisatta’s chief disciple gave of the Master’s words. Back came the Bodhisatta from the Radiant Realm, and from mid-air recited this stanza:—

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With conscious, with unconscious, too, Dwells sorrow. Either ill eschew. Pure bliss, from all corruption free, Springs but from Insight’s ecstasy.

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His lesson ended, the Bodhisatta praised his disciple and went back to the Brahma Realm. Then the rest of the recluses believed the chief disciple.

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His lesson taught, the Master identified the Birth by saying, “In those days Sariputta was the chief disciple, and I Maha-Brahma.”

Jhānasodhanajātaka

“Ye saññino tepi duggatā, Yepi asaññino tepi duggatā; Etaṁ ubhayaṁ vivajjaya, Taṁ samāpattisukhaṁ anaṅgaṇan”ti.

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