“Various kinds of sadness, weeping, and lamentations are repurcusions of worldly desires. Hence, non-existence of clinging towards someone or something, leads to absence of negative feelings and actions such as sadness, weepings and lamentations.”
”Thus, an intelligent person who can live without craving for someone or something, would be able to exist without any sorrows. Hence, if one wishes to get away from sadness and the mist of defilments to obtain the arahathhood. It is necessary for him to terminate craving and possessiveness for everybody or everything” The above mentioned stanzas are obtained from Vishakha sutra of the Pataleegameeyo section, which is mentioned in the Udana pali further, the meanings of those two are also stated while the Buddha was occupying Migaramatha Pasada known as Poovaramaya in Shrawasthi’ One afternoon, Vishakha Upasikava approached the Buddha not like the other days, but with wet clothes and wet hair.
When the reason was asked why she came in such a manner, she respectfully answered that she came in with an unbearable grief because one of her grand-daughters had passed away. when she venerated the Buddha and sat aside, the Buddha inguired her. Whether she liked to have sons and daughters, grand-daughters and grand-sons as many as the number of people living in Shrawasthi nuwara (in the city of Sharawasthi). She readily replied that she wished to have as many as grand children as the number of people. Again, the Buddha asked her whether she knew the specific number of people who die in a day in the city of shrawasthi. She replied,
”I know ten people die daily in Shrawasthi. nine people die daily, eight people die daily, seven people die daily, six people die daily, three people die daily, Two people die daily even one perosn die daily and the city of Shrawasthi is never without dying people’ The Buddha inquired her again” Vishakha, what do you think? If you consider that all the children in the city of Shrawasthi are your grand children and if ten die daily or even if are dies daily. You won’t be able to stay without wel clothes and wet hair. Is that possible?” After realizing the truth, Vishakha replied that if won’t be practicable. Further she replied that she would have no benefit of having so many sons and daughters or grand-daughter or grand-sons.
by Most venerable
Dr. Mirisse Dhammika Thero. ✍️