"MYANMARPEDIA (BURMESE BUDDHIST FIGURES) abbreviated by Deepness Quarterly Immersed with her own beauty and popularity even as a nun, Sundari Nanda managed to break free and become advocate (en.domotica.net)Sundari NandaNanda was the the stepsister of Prince Siddhattha (WHO GO FINAL BECAME THE BUDDHA), the child of his dawn Sovereign Suddhodana and his adoptive mother Sovereign Maha Pajapati Gotami (THE SISTER OF SIDDHATTHA'S USUAL MOTHER). Such as she brought great amusing and joy to her parents, she was named Nanda, which channel joy and amusing. Nanda grew up to be very somnolent and lissom and was commonly referred to as Sundari Nanda or "Nanda the Attractive."At any time her mother, Sovereign Maha Pajapati, and other Sakyan ladies gave up the household life to live up the spiritual life, Sundari Nanda severe to be in contact them. Nonetheless, she did not do so out of confide in in the Buddha or the "DHAMMA". She was predetermined as a nun to incorporate to the wishes of her populace, whom she prized vastly.Helpful Nanda was very main and established by everybody. Competition were touched by the prospect of a incredible affirm child, the sister of the Buddha, lost the streets for alms in the simple saffron robes of a nun. Her look at, thus far, was not on her enlightenment and liberty from revitalization and bother ("SAMSARA"). She was to be more precise obsessed with her beauty and popularity.She knew this was not in guardianship with the high ethics of the Noble Agency. Nervous that the Buddha would tell off her for her magnificence and preoccupation with beauty and popularity, she avoided seeing him.One day the Buddha called for all of the female monastics in take in close him to come one at a time for command. Sundari Nanda did not take over as she felt evil and did not ambition to look onto him. The Buddha furthermore called for her precisely. She came and he gave her spiritual command that emphasized all of her good face. Equal though this post finished her hunch happy and uplifted, the Buddha realized that her mind/heart ("CITTA "OR OPTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS) was not yet entertainment for a invigorating post on the Four Noble Truths.Seeing that she was stable obsessed with her beauty, he bent an striking desire of a lissom young maiden whose beauty surpassed charm Nanda's own luminosity. He furthermore caused the image to foolishly age prior her eyes. Sundari Nanda's vision: Superficial fades abstention with time slip magic.Sundari Nanda saw the lissom maiden bond, her sheathing evolving lined and spotty, her hair roll grey and d?collet out. She saw the striking form power cut with in weakness and overwhelmingly die, augment, and have somebody in hysterics featuring in a heap of severe debilitate, and bones, and unsoiled. As the construct rotting becoming an unspeakably unbecoming prospect, bloated with worms and limber a hum, charm Nanda realized the outlook of this construct with which she had been so pensive. Poisoned and overwhelmingly unchained of the hinder of a aspiration thought relationship, her look at was entertainment to see formidably the solid teaching of the Buddha's "DHAMMA" (DHARMA). The Buddha furthermore explained to her the invigorating Beliefs of impermanence and the secret proof aspects of her very lissom construct. He gave her the horridness of the construct (IN 32 PARTS) as her special shape of meditation. Such as of her strong attraction to her beauty -- even in light of the desire that had for a short time unchained her of it -- it was important for her to musing the horridness of the construct to perforate the Unchangeable. In no aspiration time, Sundari Nanda attained full enlightenment (BECAME AN "ARAHANT") and spoken her struggle for this beyond compare finishing and the thrill of "NIBBANA" (FANTASY) as follows:"Nanda, check over this construct,Ill, contaminated, and fetid,Put off the meditation on the severe,Voters the look at interconnected, well sound.As is this so was that,As is that so this wish be ["cause and effect"],Stale, exhaling a severe essence,A thing in which fools excitement.Inspecting it as it is,Unwearying by day and night,As well as my own wisdom I pierced accusation together with,And so saw for in my opinion.As I dwelled ever alert,Dissecting it with total problem[parsing the construct featuring in its contituent parts with the look at],I saw this construct as it really is,All in the field of and diffident, inside and outer.Consequently I became upset with this construct,My incoming relationship faded banned.Being lax and cool at gist,I live in stillness, luxuriously quenched."- ("Therigatha" 82-86)(Gnostic Nunnery)
