Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN12: Connected Discourses on Causation

SN12:72–81. Birth, Etc.

1At Sāvatthī. "Bhikkhus, those ascetics or brahmins who do not understand birth …


2… who do not understand existence …


3… who do not understand clinging …

4… who do not understand craving …

5… who do not understand feeling …


6… who do not understand contact …

7… who do not understand the six sense bases …

8… who do not understand name-and-form …

9… who do not understand consciousness …


10sn.ii.130Those ascetics or brahmins who do not understand volitional formations, their origin, their cessation, and the way leading to their cessation: these I do not consider to be ascetics among ascetics or brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones do not, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood.


"But, bhikkhus, those ascetics and brahmins who do understand these things: these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood."

1"Sāvatthiyaṁ vihārati. Jātiṁ nappajānanti … pe … .


2"Bhavaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .


3"Upādānaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .

4"Taṇhaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .

5"Vedanāṁ nappajānanti … pe … .


6"Phassaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .

7"Saḷāyatanaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .

8"Nāmarūpaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .

9"Viññāṇaṁ nappajānanti … pe … .


10"Saṅkhāre nappajānanti, saṅkhārasamudayaṁ nappajānanti, saṅkhāranirodhaṁ nappajānanti, saṅkhāranirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadāṁ nappajānanti … pe …


pajānanti … pe … sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihārantī"ti.


Ekādasamaṁ.


Samaṇabrāhmaṇavaggo aṭṭhamo.

11Paccayekādasa vuttā,
catusaccavibhajjanā;
Samaṇabrāhmaṇavaggo,
nidāne bhavati aṭṭhamo.

12Buddho āhāro dasabalo,
Kaḷāro gahapatipañcamo;
Dukkhavaggo mahāvaggo,
Aṭṭhamo samaṇabrāhmaṇoti.

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