6. Cala Sutta Discourse Concerning Bhikkhuni Cala Bhikkhuni Samyutta Sagatha Vagga Samyutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka SOURCE: "FIVE SAMYUTTAS FROM SAGATHAVAGGA SAMYUTTA" Translated by U Tin U (Myaung), Yangon Edited by the Editorial Committee, Burma (Myanmar) Tipitaka Association, 1998

6. Discourse Concerning Bhikkhuni Cala

167. The Bhagava was staying at Savatthi. During that time Cala the bhikkhuni, on a certain morning, having re-arranged the robes on her person...p... sat at the foot of a tree to spend the day (in meditation). Then Mara the Wicked One came to bhikkhuni Cala and said to her: "Bhikkhuni, what do you dislike?" "Friend, I dislike rebirth."

"O bhikkhuni, why do you dislike rebirth? He who is reborn can enjoy sense-pleasures. Who led you into believing this: 'You must not find pleasure in rebirth?" (Cala replied:)

"To one who is born, there is death. One who is born meets with all sorts of ills being tied in bonds, being killed, and suffering many other kinds of misery. That is why I dislike rebirth. "The Buddha has expounded the dhamma for overcoming rebirth, and for getting rid of all dukkha; the Buddha has caused me to be firmly established in the ultimate Truth of Nibbana. "Those beings who do not yet know the Truth of Cessation (i.e., Nibbana), though they have reached the Fine Material Sphere or are in the Non-Material Sphere, are reborn in a new existence." Mara the Wicked One then realized: 'Cala the bhikkhuni knows me," and, feeling frustrated and miserable, be vanished thence.

End of the Cala Sutta,

the sixth in this vagga

(v) Bhikkhuni Samyutta,

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