[510] Sāvatthī. The Venerable Ānanda saw … "Friend Sāriputta, your faculties are serene; the complexion of your face is pure and bright. In which abiding has the Venerable Sāriputta dwelt today?"
"Here, friend, with the fading away of rapture (pīti), I dwelt equanimous, and mindful and clearly comprehending (sampajāno), and I experienced happiness with the body; I entered and dwelt in the third jhāna, of which the noble ones declare: 'He is equanimous, mindful, one who dwells in happiness.' Yet, friend, it did not occur to me: 'I am attaining the third jhāna,' or 'I have attained the third jhāna,' or 'I have emerged from the third jhāna.'"
"It must be, then, because I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit have long been thoroughly uprooted in the Venerable Sāriputta, that it does not occur to the Venerable Sāriputta: 'I am attaining the third jhāna,' or 'I have attained the third jhāna,' or 'I have emerged from the third jhāna.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.