Nirāmisasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Saḷāyatanavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 18 · Section 457

[457] "And what, bhikkhus, is the liberation (vimokkha) that is more spiritual than the spiritual (nirāmisā nirāmisataro)? When a bhikkhu whose taints (āsava) are destroyed is reviewing his mind (citta) liberated from lust (rāga), is reviewing his mind liberated from hatred, is reviewing his mind liberated from delusion, there arises liberation: this, bhikkhus, is called the liberation more spiritual than the spiritual." The eleventh. The Chapter on the Theme of the Hundred and Eight (Aṭṭhasatapariyāyavagga), the third. Its summary verse (uddāna): Sīvaka, the Hundred and Eight, the Bhikkhu, Before, and Knowledge, with a Bhikkhu; Ascetics and Brahmins — three, the Simple Version, and Not of the Flesh. The Connected Discourses on Feeling (Vedanāsaṃyutta) is finished.¹ _____________ ¹ The Burmese edition reads: samattaṃ ("concluded"). The Repetition Chapter (Peyyālavagga), the first. The second.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.