{"id":"an3.32","title":"With Ānanda","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.32","title":"With Ānanda","units":[{"id":"an3.32:0","sourceIds":["an3.32:0.1","an3.32:0.2","an3.32:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.32\n4. Devadūtavagga\nĀnandasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.32\n4. Messengers of the Gods\nWith Ānanda"}},{"id":"an3.32:1","sourceIds":["an3.32:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā ānando yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"Then Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:"}},{"id":"an3.32:2","sourceIds":["an3.32:2.1","an3.32:2.2","an3.32:2.3","an3.32:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Siyā nu kho, bhante, bhikkhuno tathārūpo samādhipaṭilābho yathā imasmiñca saviññāṇake kāye ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu, bahiddhā ca sabbanimittesu ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu;\nyañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja viharato ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā na honti tañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja vihareyyā”ti?\n“Siyā, ānanda, bhikkhuno tathārūpo samādhipaṭilābho yathā imasmiñca saviññāṇake kāye ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu, bahiddhā ca sabbanimittesu ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu;\nyañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja viharato ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā na honti tañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja vihareyyā”ti.","en":"“Could it be, sir, that a mendicant might gain a state of immersion such that there’s no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for this conscious body; and no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for externally for all signs;\nand that they’d live having attained the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit are no more?”\n“It could be, Ānanda, that a mendicant gains a state of immersion such that they have no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for this conscious body; and no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for externally for all signs;\nand that they’d live having attained the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit are no more.”"}},{"id":"an3.32:3","sourceIds":["an3.32:3.1","an3.32:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yathā kathaṁ pana, bhante, siyā bhikkhuno tathārūpo samādhipaṭilābho yathā imasmiñca saviññāṇake kāye ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu, bahiddhā ca sabbanimittesu ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu;\nyañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja viharato ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā na honti tañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja vihareyyā”ti?","en":"“But how could this be, sir?”"}},{"id":"an3.32:4","sourceIds":["an3.32:4.1","an3.32:4.2","an3.32:4.3","an3.32:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idhānanda, bhikkhuno evaṁ hoti:\n‘etaṁ santaṁ etaṁ paṇītaṁ yadidaṁ sabbasaṅkhārasamatho sabbūpadhipaṭinissaggo taṇhākkhayo virāgo nirodho nibbānan’ti.\nEvaṁ kho, ānanda, siyā bhikkhuno tathārūpo samādhipaṭilābho yathā imasmiñca saviññāṇake kāye ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu, bahiddhā ca sabbanimittesu ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā nāssu;\nyañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja viharato ahaṅkāramamaṅkāramānānusayā na honti tañca cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ upasampajja vihareyyāti.","en":"“Ānanda, it’s when a mendicant thinks:\n‘This is peaceful; this is sublime—that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, cessation, extinguishment.’\nThat’s how, Ānanda, a mendicant might gain a state of immersion such that there’s no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for this conscious body; and no I-making, mine-making, or underlying tendency to conceit for externally for all signs;\nand that they’d live having achieved the freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom where I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit are no more."}},{"id":"an3.32:5","sourceIds":["an3.32:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idañca pana metaṁ, ānanda, sandhāya bhāsitaṁ pārāyane puṇṇakapañhe:","en":"And Ānanda, this is what I was referring to in ‘The Way to the Far Shore’, in ‘The Questions of Puṇṇaka’ when I said:"}},{"id":"an3.32:6","sourceIds":["an3.32:6.1","an3.32:6.2","an3.32:6.3","an3.32:6.4","an3.32:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Saṅkhāya lokasmiṁ paroparāni,\nYassiñjitaṁ natthi kuhiñci loke;\nSanto vidhūmo anīgho nirāso,\nAtāri so jātijaranti brūmī’”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"‘Having appraised the world high and low,\nthere is nothing in the world that disturbs them.\nPeaceful, unclouded, untroubled, with no need for hope—\nthey’ve crossed over rebirth and old age, I declare.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.32/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}