Thag 1:41 · Sirivaḍḍha
Lightning lands on the cleft
between Vebhāra & Paṇḍava,1
but,
having gone to the cleft in the mountains,
he’s absorbed in jhāna2—the son
of the one without compare,
the one who is Such.3
Notes
1. Mountains near Rājagaha.
2. Meditative absorption, one of the four levels of intense concentration that constitute right concentration in the noble eightfold path.
3. Such (tādin): an epithet for an arahant, indicating that his/her attainment is indefinable and not subject to change.
Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).
