7. Upacala Sutta Discourse Concerning Bhikkhuni Upacala 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

7. Upacala Sutta - Discourse Concerning Bhikkhuni Upacala

168. The Bhagava was staying at Savatthi. During that time Upacala 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 Upacala and said to her: "Bhikkhuni, where do you wish to come into existence?" "Friend, I do not wish to come into existence anywhere,"

(Thereupon Mara said:)

"There are devas of the Tavatamsa, Yama, Tusita, Nimmanarati, and Vasavati realms; direct your mind to those celestial realms, and you will come to enjoy the pleasures there."

(Bhikkhuni Upacala replied:)

"The devas of the Tavatamsa, Yama, Tusita, Nimmanarati and Vasavatti are bound by sensual bonds and they fall again into Mara's control. . "All sentient beings are burning (with sensuality); all sentient beings are emitting fumes (of sensuality); all sentient beings are blazing (with sensuality); all sentient beings are quaking (under the influence of sensuality).

"Where there is no quaking (with sensuality), no blazing (of sensuality), to which only Ariyas can resort, where Mara cannot reach, therein (i.e., in Nibbana) my mind delights."

Mara the Wicked One then realized: "Upacala bhikkhuni knows me;" and, feeling frustrated and miserable, he vanished thence.

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

(v) Bhikkhuni Samyutta,

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