Dhammapada 2.9.p5

2.9.p5

Sabbaṃ suvajātakaṃ navakanipāte āgatanayeneva vitthāretabbaṃ. Aṭṭhuppattiyeva hi tattha ca idha ca nānā, sesaṃ tādisameva. Satthā imaṃ dhammadesanaṃ āharitvā, ‘‘tadā sakko ānando ahosi, suvarājā ahamevā’’ti vatvā, ‘‘evaṃ, bhikkhave, appicchatā nāmesā mama tanti, mama paveṇī, anacchariyā mama puttassa nigamavāsitissassa mādisaṃ ācariyaṃ labhitvā appicchatā, bhikkhunā nāma nigamavāsitissena viya appiccheneva bhavitabbaṃ. Evarūpo hi bhikkhu abhabbo samathavipassanādhammehi vā maggaphalehi vā parihānāya, aññadatthu nibbānasseva santike hotī’’ti vatvā imaṃ gāthamāha –

(The entire Jātaka is here to be related in detail, just as it occurs in the tenth Nipāta. The occasion there is different from what it is here, but everything else is the same.) When the Teacher had given this religious instruction, he said, “At that time Sakka was Ānanda, and the parrot-king was I myself. Thus, monks, contentment is my disposition and my habit. It is, therefore, not at all strange that my son Nigamavāsī Tissa, because he was so happy and contented, obtained me for his teacher. Such a monk, because he has attained the

Paths and the Fruits, is not liable to fall away; nay rather he is nigh even unto Nibbāna.” So saying, he pronounced the following Stanza,