1At Sāvatthī … . The Venerable Ānanda saw the Venerable Sāriputta coming in the distance …

"Here, friend, by completely transcending the base of neither-perception-nor-nonperception, I entered and dwelt in the cessation of perception and feeling. Yet, friend, it did not occur to me, ‘I am attaining the cessation of perception and feeling,’ or ‘I have attained the cessation of perception and feeling,’ or ‘I have emerged from the cessation of perception and feeling.’"

"It must be because I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit have been thoroughly uprooted in the Venerable Sāriputta for a long time that such thoughts did not occur to him."

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Atha kho āyasmā sāriputto … pe …

… "Idhāhaṁ, āvuso, sabbaso nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ upasampajja viharāmi. Tassa mayhaṁ, āvuso, na evaṁ hoti: ‘Ahaṁ saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ samāpajjāmī’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ samāpanno’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ saññāvedayitanirodhā vuṭṭhito’ti vā"ti.

Tathā hi panāyasmato sāriputtassa dīgharattaṁ ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā susamūhatā. Tasmā āyasmato sāriputtassa na evaṁ hoti: "‘Ahaṁ saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ samāpajjāmī’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ samāpanno’ti vā ‘Ahaṁ saññāvedayitanirodhā vuṭṭhito’ti vā"ti.

Navamaṁ.