Feeding on rapture

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Feeding on rapture

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We who have nothing we will feed on rapture like the radiant gods" paraphrase does anyone know what sutta this is from?
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Dhammapada, Chap. 15 "Happiness", v. 200.
Due to the nature of 'piti' (rapture) as a change in the mode of energy from striving to initial attainment, it always implies that effort has previously been applied.
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"Feeding on rapture" pītibhakkha by itself is also found in three of the Dīgha Nikāya suttas: the Brahmajāla, Pāthika, and Aggañña.
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.


In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
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Does anyone know who the audience was when this sutta was taught?
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The commentary says that the Buddha was addressing Mara.
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Thank you :anjali:
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