[84] 10. Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One, newly attained to full awakening, was dwelling at Uruvelā on the bank of the river Nerañjarā, at the foot of the Bodhi tree. Now on that occasion the Blessed One had been sitting for seven days in a single cross-legged posture, experiencing the bliss of liberation (vimutti). Then, with the passing of those seven days, the Blessed One emerged from that concentration (samādhi) and surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha (buddhacakkhu). As he surveyed with the eye of a Buddha, the Blessed One saw beings being tormented by many torments and burned by many fevers — born of lust (rāga), born of hatred (dosa), and born of delusion (moha).
Then the Blessed One, having understood this matter, on that occasion uttered this inspired utterance (udāna):
"This world, in which torment has arisen, afflicted by contact (phassa), asserts a disease to be self;
for in whatever way it conceives it, it thereby becomes otherwise.
Becoming otherwise, the world, attached to existence (bhava), afflicted by existence, delights only in existence.
What it delights in, that is peril; what it fears, that is suffering (dukkha).
But it is for the abandoning of existence that this holy life (brahmacariya) is lived.
"Whatever ascetics or brahmins have declared that release from existence comes about by means of existence — all of them, I say, are unreleased from existence.
And whatever ascetics or brahmins have declared that escape from existence comes about by means of non-existence (vibhava) — all of them, I say, have not escaped from existence.
"For it is in dependence on all acquisition (upadhi) that this suffering comes to be;
with the destruction of all clinging (upādāna), there is no arising of suffering.
Behold this world: beings in great number, afflicted by ignorance (avijjā) or delighting in what has come to be, are unreleased.
Whatever states of existence there are, everywhere and in every way,
all those states of existence are impermanent, suffering, and subject to change.
"For one seeing this as it really is (yathābhūta) with right wisdom,
craving for existence (bhavataṇhā) is abandoned, and he does not delight in craving for non-existence (vibhavataṇhā).
With the complete destruction of cravings (taṇhā), there is Nibbāna: cessation (nirodha) through fading away without remainder.
For that bhikkhu who is quenched, through not clinging, there is no renewed existence.
Māra has been vanquished, the battle won: the Stable One (tādī) has passed beyond all states of existence."
The Tenth.
The Nanda Chapter, the Third.
Its summary (uddāna):
Kamma, Nanda, and Yasoja, Sāriputta and Kolita,
Pilinda, Kassapa, Piṇḍa, Sippa, together with Loka — these are the ten.
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In the Udāna, the Fourth Chapter: the Meghiya Chapter.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.