The Life of the Buddha: The Distress of the Brethren.
When the Exalted One died, of those of the Brethren who were not yet free from the passions, some stretched out their arms and wept, and some fell headlong on the ground, rolling to and fro in anguish at the thought: "To soon has the Exalted One died! Too soon has the Happy One passed away! Too soon has the Eye in the world passed away." But those of the Brethren who were free from the passions, to wit, the Arahats, bore their grief collected and composed in the thought: "Impermanent are all component things! How is it possible that they should not be dissolved?"
And the Venerable Anuruddha exhorted the Brethren, and said: "Enough, my Brethren! Weep not, nor lament! Has not the Exalted One formerly declared this to us, that it is in the very nature of all things near and dear unto us, that we must divide ourselves from them, leave them, sever ourselves from them? How then, Brethren, can this be possible that when dead anything whatever born, brought into being, organzied and containing within itself the inherent necessity of dissolution how then can this be possible that such a being should not be dissolved? No such condition can exist!"
When the Exalted One died, of those of the Brethren who were not yet free from the passions, some stretched out their arms and wept, and some fell headlong on the ground, rolling to and fro in anguish at the thought: "To soon has the Exalted One died! Too soon has the Happy One passed away! Too soon has the Eye in the world passed away." But those of the Brethren who were free from the passions, to wit, the Arahats, bore their grief collected and composed in the thought: "Impermanent are all component things! How is it possible that they should not be dissolved?"
And the Venerable Anuruddha exhorted the Brethren, and said: "Enough, my Brethren! Weep not, nor lament! Has not the Exalted One formerly declared this to us, that it is in the very nature of all things near and dear unto us, that we must divide ourselves from them, leave them, sever ourselves from them? How then, Brethren, can this be possible that when dead anything whatever born, brought into being, organzied and containing within itself the inherent necessity of dissolution how then can this be possible that such a being should not be dissolved? No such condition can exist!"
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