Devaputtasaṁyutta 15

Linked Discourses 2.15

2. With Anāthapiṇḍika

With Candana

1 Standing to one side, the godling Candana addressed the Buddha in verse:

2 “Who here crosses the flood,

tireless all day and night?

Who, not standing and unsupported,

does not sink in the deep?”

3 “Someone who is always endowed with ethics,

wise and serene,

energetic and resolute,

crosses the flood so hard to cross.

4 Someone who desists from sensual perception,

has moved past the fetter of form,

and has finished with relishing and greed

does not sink in the deep.”