Dighanikaya 19.317

19.317

Navaṃ sandhāgāraṃ kāretvāti rattiṭṭhānadivāṭṭhānacaṅkamanasampannaṃ vassike cattāro māse vasanakkhamaṃ bahi naḷaparikkhittaṃ vicittaṃ āvasathaṃ kāretvā. Karuṇaṃ jhānaṃ jhāyīti karuṇāya tikacatukkajjhānaṃ jhāyi, karuṇāmukhena panettha avasesāpi tayo brahmavihārā gahitāva. Ukkaṇṭhanā paritassanāti jhānabhūmiyaṃ ṭhitassa anabhiratiukkaṇṭhanā vā bhayaparitassanā vā natthi, brahmuno pana āgamanapatthanā āgamanataṇhā ahūti attho.

"Having a new pavilion built" means: having built an ornate dwelling suitable for living in during the four months of the rainy season, equipped with places for the night, places for the day, and a walking-meditation path, enclosed outside with reeds. "He meditated on the absorption of compassion" means: he meditated on the three-fold or four-fold absorption of compassion; moreover, through the doorway of compassion the remaining three divine abidings are also included. "Yearning, agitation": for one established on the plane of absorption there is no yearning of dissatisfaction or agitation of fear; rather, the meaning is that there was an aspiration for, a craving for, the coming of Brahmā.