Reading guide
The same instruction, now personally commanded
"Rādha, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form" — where SN 22.111 addressed "the mendicants" collectively, this discourse names Rādha directly, giving the identical instruction a more immediate, personal force.
The palm-stump image, unchanged
"Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future" — the exact same image of permanent removal as SN 22.111, unaltered by its new personal address.
Why direct address suits this material specifically
Instruction (as opposed to analysis or definition) is arguably better suited to personal address than to a general assembly — "you should give up" spoken to one named individual carries a directness that "mendicants, you should give up" spoken to a crowd cannot quite match, making this discourse's reuse feel especially apt.
Setting up its own closing companion
SN 23.10, this vagga's final discourse, will similarly restate SN 22.112's own expanded instruction — adding the five further attachment-related terms — closing both this reuse pair and Māravagga itself.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him:
§2“Rādha, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.
§3You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling … perception … choices … consciousness. Thus that consciousness will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future.”
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