The second about venerable Anuruddha

Venerable Anurudddha approached venerable Sāriputta, exchanged friendly greetings and sitting on a side said thus to venerable Sāriputta:

Friend, Sāriputta, with my heavenly eye purified beyond human I look at the thousandfold world system, my effort is aroused, mindfulness is established unconfused, body is appeased without aversion, the mind is concentrated and in one point. Yet my mind is not released from desires without anything remaining.

Friend, Anuruddha, when it occurs to you, `With my heavenly eye purified beyond human I look at the thousandfold world system.' That to you is conceit. Friend, Anuruddha, when it occurs to you, `My effort is aroused, mindfulness is established unconfused, body is appeased without aversion, the mind is concentrated and in one point,' that to you is distraction. Friend, Anuruddha, if it occurs to you, `Yet my mind is not released from desires without anything remaining,' that, to you is worry.

Good! If venerable Anuruddha dispelling these three thoughts, not attending to them should lead the mind to the deathless element.

Venerable Anuruddha in the meantime dispelling these three thoughts, not attending to them, led the mind to the deathless element. Then venerable Anuruddha alone and secluded from the crowd, diligently arousing effort to dispel, before long for whatever reason sons of clansmen, rightfully leaving the household become homeless, that noble end of the holy life he here and now by himself realizing abode. He thoroughly knew, birth is destroyed, the holy life is lived, what should be done is done, there is nothing more to wish. Venerable Anuruddha became one of the noble ones.