Joy

1-6. Sāvatthi. ... re ... Venerable Ānanda saw venerable Sāriputta approaching in the distance and said to him: “Friend Sāriputta, your mental faculties are clear, your face seems clear. In what abiding did you spend the day?”

7-8. “Friend, I abode in the third higher stage of the mind with emotions of joy, fading and feeling with equanimity and mindfully experienced pleasantness with the body too. To this the noble ones said mindfully abiding in pleasantness Yet friend it did not occur to me, `I attained to the third higher state of mind or got up from the third higher state of the mind.”

“Friend Sāriputta, since long your latent tendency of measuring conceitedly has been completely destroyed, therefore it did not occur to you, `I attain, or attained to the third higher state of mind or got up from the third higher state of the mind.”