sn.21.5 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Sujata

At Savatthi. Then the Venerable Sujata approached the Blessed One. The Blessed One saw him coming in the distance and addressed the bhikkhus thus: “Bhikkhus, this clansman is beautiful in both respects. He is handsome, good-looking, pleasing to behold, possessing supreme beauty of complexion. And he is one who, by realizing it for himself with direct knowledge, in this very life enters and dwells in that unsurpassed goal of the holy life for the sake of which clansmen rightly go forth from the household life into homelessness.”

This is what the Blessed One said … who further said this:

“This bhikkhu shines with sublime beauty,
Having a mind utterly straight.
Detached is he, free from fetters,
Attained to Nibbāna by nonclinging.
He carries about his final body,
Having conquered Mara and his mount.”

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh

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With Sujāta

At Sāvatthī.
Then Venerable Sujāta went to see the Buddha.
The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance,
and addressed the mendicants:
“This gentleman is beautiful in both ways.
He’s attractive, good-looking, lovely, of surpassing beauty. And he has realized the supreme end of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”
That is what the Buddha said.
Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
“This mendicant is truly beautiful.
His heart is upright,
he’s unfettered, detached,
extinguished by not grasping.
He bears his final body,
having vanquished Māra and his mount.”