| 28. (The deva
said:)
"Even kings, holding (vast) domains, with their great
wealth and riches,
are not satisfied with
the sensual pleasures
(afforded by their
wealth and power) and covet one another's property.
Among those who
preoccupy themselves with worldly things
and drift along with
life's (unending) stream, who in this world have given up Craving?
Who in this world are
free from preoccupations."
(The Bhagava said:)
"Those who have left hearth and home,
leaving behind beloved
children and possessions such as cattle, become recluses.
Doing away with
attachment and hatred and destroying ignorance,
they become arahats in
whom defilements are extinct.
Those arahats have no
preoccupations with worldly things."
End of the Mahaddhana Sutta,
the eighth in this vagga.
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