s born enjoys sensual pleasures. Who on earth ever persuaded you: ), # Right single quote ('â', Nun, donât approve of birthâ?" Sister Cṅlṅ: "For one who is born thereâs death. One who is born sees pain. Itâs a binding, a flogging, a torment. Thatâs why one shouldnât approve of birth. The Awakened One taught me the Dhamma —the overcoming of birth— for the abandoning of all pain, he established me in the truth. But beings who have come to form & those with a share in the formless, if they donât discern cessation, return to becoming-again." Then Mṅra the Evil One—sad & dejected at realizing, "Cṅlṅ the nun knows me"—vanished right there. See also: MN 106; MN 140; Iti 43; Iti 72 - --> - - - -