10.
The Second Discourse on Dabba
80.
Thus have I heard -
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"Of Dabba the Mallian, monks, who had risen up into the sky, sat cross-legged in the air, in the atmosphere, attained the heat element, emerged from it, and attained final Nibbāna, as his body was burning and blazing, neither ashes appeared nor soot. Just as when ghee or oil is burning and blazing, neither ashes appear nor soot; so too, monks, of Dabba the Mallian who had risen up into the sky, sat cross-legged in the air, in the atmosphere, attained the heat element, emerged from it, and attained final Nibbāna, as his body was burning and blazing, neither ashes appeared nor soot."
Then the Blessed One, having understood this matter, at that time uttered this inspired utterance -
Gradually subsiding, the destination is not known.
There is no destination to be declared for those who have attained unshakeable happiness." The tenth.