Related:: [[Sariputta|Ven. Sāriputta]]
Parent:: [[Arahat]]
# Venerable Mahāmoggallāna (Buddha's 2nd Foremost Disciple)
## Stories
> [!tldr] Life of Ven. Mahāmoggallāna
> - Life story:
> - [accesstoinsight.org](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/hecker/wheel263.html)
> - **Sariputta and Moggallana | Animated Buddhist Stories:** [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j61lb8kA8dY)
> - Theragāthā
> - thag17.2 Sāriputtattheragāthā ([link](https://suttacentral.net/thag17.2/en/sujato))
> - Important Suttas
> - Buddha's instructions to Mahāmoggallāna on **removing drowsiness, among many other things**
> - [[AN7.61 Pacalāyamānasutta]]
> - SN40.1 Tatiyajhānapañhāsutta ([link](https://suttacentral.net/sn40.1/en/sujato))
> - SN40.1 - SN40.9 Animittapañhāsutta ([link](https://suttacentral.net/sn40.9/en/sujato))
> - Moggallāna describing 1-9th Jhana and how Buddha assisted him using Supernatural powers #buddha/iddhi
> - More suttas:
> - https://suttacentral.net/sn40-moggallanavagga
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### Going forth
> [!info] Happened right after [[Sariputta|Ven. Sāriputta]]!
> [!NOTE] Going Forth of Ven. Moggallāna — In Mahākhandhaka ([pli-tv-kd1](https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd1/en/brahmali#pli-tv-kd1:23.1.0))
> Then the wanderer Sāriputta went to the wanderer Moggallāna.
> _Atha kho sāriputto paribbājako yena moggallāno paribbājako tenupasaṅkami._
>
> When Moggallāna saw him coming, he said to Sāriputta,
> _Addasā kho moggallāno paribbājako sāriputtaṁ paribbājakaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ, disvāna sāriputtaṁ paribbājakaṁ etadavoca—_
>
> “Your senses are clear and your skin is pure and bright.
> _“vippasannāni kho te, āvuso, indriyāni, parisuddho chavivaṇṇo pariyodāto._
>
> **You haven’t attained the ==deathless==, have you**?”
> _**Kacci no tvaṁ, āvuso, ==amataṁ== adhigato**”ti?_
>
> ---
> “**I have**.”
> _“**Āmāvuso, amataṁ adhigato**”ti._
>
> ---
> “But how did it happen?”
> _“Yathākathaṁ pana tvaṁ, āvuso, amataṁ adhigato”ti?_
>
> ---
> Sāriputta told him everything up to and including the teaching given by Assaji.
> ... (See [[Sariputta#Going Forth]])
>
> ---
>
> When he had heard this teaching, Moggallāna **experienced the stainless vision of the Truth**:
> _Atha kho moggallānassa paribbājakassa imaṁ dhammapariyāyaṁ sutvā virajaṁ **vītamalaṁ dhammacakkhuṁ udapādi**—_
>
> “**Anything that has a beginning has an end.**”
> _“**==yaṁ kiñci samudayadhammaṁ sabbaṁ taṁ nirodhadhammanti==**._
>
> ---
> “Now this is the truth, even just this much—
> _Eseva dhammo yadi tāvadeva,_
>
> The sorrowless state that you have penetrated,
> _Paccabyattha padamasokaṁ;_
>
> Unseen and neglected
> _Adiṭṭhaṁ abbhatītaṁ,_
>
> For innumerable eons.”
> _Bahukehi kappanahutehī”ti._
>
> ---
> Moggallāna said to Sāriputta,
> _Atha kho moggallāno paribbājako sāriputtaṁ paribbājakaṁ etadavoca—_
>
> “**==Let’s go to the Buddha. He’s our teacher.==**”
> _“**gacchāma mayaṁ, āvuso, bhagavato santike, so no bhagavā satthā**”ti._
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## Quotes :)
![[AN7.61 Pacalāyamānasutta#^nothing-worth-insisting-on]]
## Sutta
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