Dighanikaya 18.281

18.281

Āsā ca pana me santiṭṭhatīti imināhaṃ sotāpannoti na suttappamattova hutvā kālaṃ vītināmesiṃ. Sakadāgāmimaggatthāya pana me vipassanā āraddhā. Ajjeva ajjeva paṭivijjhissāmīti evaṃ saussāho viharāmīti dasseti. Yadaggeti laṭṭhivanuyyāne paṭhamadassane sotāpannadivasaṃ sandhāya vadati. Tadagge ahaṃ, bhante, dīgharattaṃ avinipāto avinipātaṃ sañjānāmīti taṃdivasaṃ ādiṃ katvā, ahaṃ, bhante, purimaṃ catuddasaattabhāvasaṅkhātaṃ dīgharattaṃ avinipāto laṭṭhivanuyyāne sotāpattimaggavasena adhigataṃ avinipātadhammataṃ sañjānāmīti attho. Anacchariyanti anuacchariyaṃ. Cintayamānaṃ punappunaṃ acchariyamevidaṃ yaṃ kenacideva karaṇīyena gacchanto bhagavantaṃ antarāmagge addasaṃ. Idampi acchariyaṃ yañca vessavaṇassa mahārājassa sayaṃparisāya bhāsato bhagavato diṭṭhasadisameva sammukhā sutaṃ. Dve paccayāti antarāmagge diṭṭhabhāvo ca vessavaṇassa sammukhā sutaṃ ārocetukāmatā ca.

“And I still entertain hope”: by this he shows: “Being a stream-enterer, I have not passed the time in negligent slumber. Rather, insight has been aroused in me for the sake of the path of a once-returner. I live with exertion, thinking: ‘Today itself, today itself I shall penetrate [it]!’” “Since then”: he says this referring to the day he became a stream-enterer upon seeing [the Blessed One] for the first time in the Laṭṭhivana garden. “From that time onward, venerable sir, for a long time I am not liable to ruin, and I know that I am not liable to ruin”: the meaning is, “Starting from that day, venerable sir, for the long time that consisted of fourteen previous existences, I know the state of being not liable to ruin, which was attained by way of the path of stream-entry in the Laṭṭhivana garden.” “Not wonderful” means wonderfully marvellous. “When I consider it again and again, it is indeed a wonder that, going on some business, I saw the Blessed One along the road. This too is a wonder, that which was heard face-to-face when the Great King Vessavaṇa was speaking to his own retinue, exactly as seen by the Blessed One.” “Two conditions”: the fact of having seen [him] along the road, and the desire to announce what was heard face-to-face from Vessavaṇa.