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 Verse 250 for 7 September, 2026

250. Detached from sense pleasures and unskilled states of mind, one enters and abides in the first jhana, which has logical and wandering thought present, and is filled with a joy and happiness that is born of detachment. And with that joy and happiness born of detachment, one suffuses, drenches, fills and permeates the whole body so that there is no spot in the entire body that is untouched by that joy and happiness born of concentration. Just as a skilled bath-attendant or his apprentice, kneading bath powder which has been sprinkled with water, forms from it in a metal bowl a ball of foam from which no moisture escapes - in the same way, one suffuses, drenches, fills and permeates the whole body so that no spot is untouched.

Digha Nikaya II.73 ::

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