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Devaputtasaṁyutta 17

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Linked Discourses 2.17

2. With Anāthapiṇḍika

With Subrahmā

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

2 “This mind is always anxious,

this mind is always stressed

about stresses that haven’t arisen

and those that have.

If there is a state free of anxiety,

please answer my question.”

3 “Not without understanding and fervor,

not without restraining the sense faculties,

not without letting go of everything,

do I see safety for living creatures.”

4 That is what the Buddha said. … The godling vanished right there.

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Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, Mahāsaṅgīti edition.

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