8.

Connected Discourses with Anuruddha

1.

The Chapter on Being Alone

1-2.

Commentary on the First Gone to Seclusion Discourse and Others

899-900. In the first discourse of the Anuruddha Connected Discourses, "undertaken" means complete. But here, in brief, insight has been spoken of, leading to arahantship in thirty-six instances; in the second, insight has been spoken of, leading to arahantship in twelve instances.

3.

Commentary on the Sutanu Discourse

901. In the third, "great direct knowledge" means the state of possessing the six direct knowledges. Regarding "inferior state" and so on, the meaning should be understood by this canonical passage -

"What mental states are inferior? The twelve unwholesome arisings of consciousness - these mental states are inferior. What mental states are middling? Wholesome in the three planes, resultant in the three planes, functional-(kammically) indeterminate in the three planes, and all matter - these mental states are middling. What mental states are sublime? The four paths that are not included, the four fruits of asceticism, and Nibbāna - these mental states are sublime."

4-7.

Commentary on the First Kaṇḍakī Discourse and Others

902-905. In the fourth, "Kaṇḍakī Grove" means in the great karamanda grove. In the sixth, "a thousand worlds" - by this the elder monk's constant abiding is shown. For the elder monk, right early, having washed his face, recollects a thousand cosmic cycles in the past and future. In the present, however, ten thousand world-circles come into the range of a single adverting. The seventh is clear in itself.

8.

Commentary on the Salaḷā Hall Discourse

906. In the eighth, "Salaḷa Tree House" means in a hermitage made of Salaḷa trees, or in the house so named because of a Salaḷa tree standing at its door. In this discourse, the person gifted with insight is spoken of together with insight.

9.

Commentary on the Ambapālī Grove Discourse

907. In the ninth, "bold speech" means the highest speech that reveals one's own state of arahantship. The remainder is of manifest meaning everywhere.

The Gone to Seclusion Chapter is the first.

2.

Commentary on the Second Chapter

909-922. In the Second Chapter, by means of "the possible as possible" and so on, the elder monk claims the knowledge of the ten powers. But does this exist for disciples? It exists in part; but for omniscient Buddhas this is all-embracing, complete in every aspect.

The commentary on the Anuruddha Saṃyutta is finished.