Thank you, Jittananto.
“The fact that nothing is felt is precisely what’s blissful about it.”
- Most people do not realize the incessant suffering in the lower realms (apāyās) where a sattā (anyone below the Sotapanna Anugāmi stage) spends a lot of time in the rebirth process!
- Even in the human realm, our minds are stressed out most of the time. This becomes especially evident after reaching the Anagami/Sakadagami stages. In several suttas, Anagamis’ utterance of “aho sukhaṁ” (“how blissful it is”) is mentioned.
- See, for example, “Bhaddiya Sutta (Ud 2.10).”
P.S. Jittananto’s following comment above needs to be further clarified: “This is sutta central explaining : The fortnight between realizing stream-entry while still a student of Sañjaya (Kd 1:23.5.6) and arahantship while overhearing the Buddha teach Dīghanakha (MN 74:5.1).”
- Where in MN 74 those statements appear?