At one time the venerables Sāriputta and Upasena were staying near Rājagaha in the Cool Grove, under the Cobra’s Hood Grotto. Now at that time a viper fell on Upasena’s body. He addressed the mendicants, “Come, reverends, lift this body onto a cot and carry it outside
before it’s scattered right here like a handful of hay.” When he said this, Sāriputta said to him, “But we don’t see any impairment in your body or deterioration of your faculties.
“Reverend Sāriputta, there may be an impairment in body or deterioration of faculties for someone who thinks: ‘I am the eye’ or ‘the eye is mine.’ Or ‘I am the ear … nose … tongue … body …’ Or ‘I am the mind’ or ‘the mind is mine.’
PL
“Yassa nūna, āvuso sāriputta, evamassa: ‘ahaṁ cakkhūti vā mama cakkhūti vā …pe… ahaṁ jivhāti vā mama jivhāti vā … ahaṁ manoti vā mama mano’ti vā.
So why would there be an impairment in my body or deterioration of my faculties?” “That must be because Venerable Upasena has long ago totally eradicated I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit. That’s why it doesn’t occur to you:
‘I am the eye’ or ‘the eye is mine.’ Or ‘I am the ear … nose … tongue … body …’ Or ‘I am the mind’ or ‘the mind is mine.’” Then those mendicants lifted Upasena’s body onto a cot and carried it outside.
PL
“‘ahaṁ cakkhūti vā mama cakkhūti vā …pe… ahaṁ jivhāti vā mama jivhāti vā …pe… ahaṁ manoti vā mama mano’ti vā”ti. Atha kho te bhikkhū āyasmato upasenassa kāyaṁ mañcakaṁ āropetvā bahiddhā nīhariṁsu.
EN
And his body was scattered right there like a handful of hay.
At one time the venerables Sāriputta and Upasena were staying near Rājagaha in the Cool Grove, under the Cobra’s Hood Grotto. Now at that time a viper fell on Upasena’s body. He addressed the mendicants, “Come, reverends, lift this body onto a cot and carry it outside
before it’s scattered right here like a handful of hay.” When he said this, Sāriputta said to him, “But we don’t see any impairment in your body or deterioration of your faculties.
“Reverend Sāriputta, there may be an impairment in body or deterioration of faculties for someone who thinks: ‘I am the eye’ or ‘the eye is mine.’ Or ‘I am the ear … nose … tongue … body …’ Or ‘I am the mind’ or ‘the mind is mine.’
PL
“Yassa nūna, āvuso sāriputta, evamassa: ‘ahaṁ cakkhūti vā mama cakkhūti vā …pe… ahaṁ jivhāti vā mama jivhāti vā … ahaṁ manoti vā mama mano’ti vā.
So why would there be an impairment in my body or deterioration of my faculties?” “That must be because Venerable Upasena has long ago totally eradicated I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit. That’s why it doesn’t occur to you:
‘I am the eye’ or ‘the eye is mine.’ Or ‘I am the ear … nose … tongue … body …’ Or ‘I am the mind’ or ‘the mind is mine.’” Then those mendicants lifted Upasena’s body onto a cot and carried it outside.
PL
“‘ahaṁ cakkhūti vā mama cakkhūti vā …pe… ahaṁ jivhāti vā mama jivhāti vā …pe… ahaṁ manoti vā mama mano’ti vā”ti. Atha kho te bhikkhū āyasmato upasenassa kāyaṁ mañcakaṁ āropetvā bahiddhā nīhariṁsu.
EN
And his body was scattered right there like a handful of hay.
Sutraya