4.
The Discourse on Nandana
95.
Standing to one side, Nandana the young god addressed the Blessed One in verse -
"I ask you, Gotama of extensive wisdom,
The Blessed One's knowledge and vision is unobstructed;
What sort of person do they call virtuous,
What sort of person do they call wise;
What sort of person lives having transcended suffering,
What sort of person do the deities venerate?"
"Whoever is virtuous, wise, self-developed,
Concentrated, delighting in meditative absorption, mindful;
All his sorrows have gone, abandoned,
One who has eliminated the mental corruptions, bearing his final body.
"Such a one they call virtuous,
Such a one they call wise;
Such a one lives having transcended suffering,
Such a one the deities venerate."