ud7.10:0.1Heartfelt Sayings 7.10
ud7.10:0.2King Udena
ud7.10:1.1So I have heard.
ud7.10:1.2At one time the Buddha was staying near Kosambī in Ghosita’s monastery.
ud7.10:1.3Now at that time, while King Udena was visiting a park, his royal compound burned down. Five hundred women died, with Queen Sāmāvatī at their head.
ud7.10:2.1Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered Kosambī for alms.
ud7.10:2.2Then, after the meal, when they returned from almsround, they went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him had happened. They asked the Buddha,
ud7.10:2.5“Sir, where have those laywomen been reborn in the next life?”
ud7.10:3.1“Among those laywomen there were stream-enterers, once-returners, and non-returners.
ud7.10:3.2None of those laywomen died without some fruit of the practice.”
ud7.10:4.1Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:
ud7.10:5.1“The world is caught up in delusion,
ud7.10:5.2but is looked on as making sense.
ud7.10:5.3The fool caught up in attachment
ud7.10:5.4is surrounded by darkness.
ud7.10:5.5It seems as if eternal,
ud7.10:5.6but for one who sees, there is nothing.”