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7 : The Minor Section Ud 7:1 Bhaddiya (1) (Bhaddiya Sutta) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī at Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. At that time Ven. Sāriputta was–with a variety of approaches–instructing, urging, rousing, & encouraging Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf with Dhamma-talk. As Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf was–with a variety of approaches–being instructed, urged, roused, & encouraged by Ven. Sāriputta with Dhamma-talk, his mind, through lack of clinging/sustenance, was released from the effluents. The Blessed One saw that as Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf was–with a variety of approaches–being instructed, urged, roused, & encouraged by Ven. Sāriputta with Dhamma-talk, his mind, through lack of clinging/sustenance, was released from the effluents. Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed: Above, below, everywhere released, he doesn’t focus on “I am this.”1 Thus released, he crosses the flood not crossed before, for the sake of no further becoming. Note 1. See Ud 1:1, note 3.