sn46.54:11.1 “Mendicants, when wanderers of other religions say this, you should say to them:
sn46.54:11.2 ‘But reverends, how is the heart’s release by love developed? What is its destination, apex, fruit, and culmination?
sn46.54:11.3 How is the heart’s release by compassion developed? What is its destination, apex, fruit, and end?
sn46.54:11.4 How is the heart’s release by rejoicing developed? What is its destination, apex, fruit, and end?
sn46.54:11.5 How is the heart’s release by equanimity developed? What is its destination, apex, fruit, and end?’
sn46.54:11.6 Questioned like this, the wanderers of other religions would be stumped, and, in addition, would get frustrated.
sn46.54:11.7 Why is that?
sn46.54:11.8 Because they’re out of their element.
sn46.54:11.9 I don’t see anyone in this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, its gods and humans—who could provide a satisfying answer to these questions except the Realized One or his disciple or someone who has heard it from them.