Itivuttaka 41

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41. Pannaparihinasuttam (Lacking Direct Knowledge)

This was said by the Lord Buddha(Bhagavata), said by the Arahant, so I have heard:

“Monks, those beings are truly deprived who are deprived of noble direct-understanding (panna). They live in suffering in the present life—troubled, disufferinged, & feverish—and at the break-up of the body, after death, a bad destination can be expected. “Those beings are not deprived who are not deprived of noble direct-understanding (panna). They live in ease in the present life—untroubled, undisufferinged, & not feverish— and at the break-up of the body, after death, a good destination can be expected."

Look at the world including its heavenly beings: deprived of direct-understanding(panna), making an abode in name-&-form, it conceives that ‘This is the truth.’ The best direct-understanding(panna) in the world is what leads to penetration, for it rightly discerns the total ending of birth & becoming (bhava). Human & heavenly beings hold them dear: those who are self-awakened, mindful(in meditation), bearing their last bodies with joyful direct-understanding(panna).