7. Sara Sutta
Discourse on the Expanse of Water
Satti Vagga, Devata Samyutta, Sagatha Vagga Samyutta,
Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

Discourse on the Expanse of Water

          27. (The deva said:)

           "Where does the expanse of water¹ recede?
          Where does the whirlpool cease to whirl?
          Where do mental and physical phenomena cease without any remainder?"

               (The Bhagava said:)

           "(In Nibbana) where neither the element of cohesion, nor the element of extension, nor the element of heat, nor the element of motion has any footing,

          there the cycle of rebirth is halted;

           there the round of dukkha stops;

          there mental and physical phenomena cease without any remainder."

End of the Sara Sutta,
the seventh in this vagga.

          1. expanse of water: sara: in this context sara is a metaphorical expression standing for the cycle of rebirth, and the whirlpool, vatta, as a metaphorical expression standing for the round of dukkha.