{"id":"an4.194","title":"At Sāpūga","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.194","title":"At Sāpūga","units":[{"id":"an4.194:0","sourceIds":["an4.194:0.1","an4.194:0.2","an4.194:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.194\n20. Mahāvagga\nSāmugiyasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.194\n20. The Great Chapter\nAt Sāpūga"}},{"id":"an4.194:1","sourceIds":["an4.194:1.1","an4.194:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā ānando koliyesu viharati sāmugaṁ nāma koliyānaṁ nigamo.\nAtha kho sambahulā sāmugiyā koliyaputtā yenāyasmā ānando tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā āyasmantaṁ ānandaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdiṁsu. Ekamantaṁ nisinne kho te sāmugiye koliyaputte āyasmā ānando etadavoca:","en":"At one time Venerable Ānanda was staying in the land of the Koliyans, where they have a town named Sāpūga.\nThen several Koliyans from Sāpūga went up to Ānanda, bowed, and sat down to one side. Then Venerable Ānanda said to them:"}},{"id":"an4.194:2","sourceIds":["an4.194:2.1","an4.194:2.2","an4.194:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārimāni, byagghapajjā, pārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgāni tena bhagavatā jānatā passatā arahatā sammāsambuddhena sammadakkhātāni sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāya.\nKatamāni cattāri?\nSīlapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ, cittapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ, diṭṭhipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ, vimuttipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ.","en":"“Byagghapajjas, these four factors of trying to be pure have been rightly explained by the Blessed One, who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment.\nWhat four?\nThe factors of trying to be pure in ethics, mind, view, and freedom."}},{"id":"an4.194:3","sourceIds":["an4.194:3.1","an4.194:3.2","an4.194:3.3","an4.194:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, byagghapajjā, sīlapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ?\nIdha, byagghapajjā, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti …pe… samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu.\nAyaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, sīlapārisuddhi.\nIti evarūpiṁ sīlapārisuddhiṁ aparipūraṁ vā paripūressāmi paripūraṁ vā tattha tattha paññāya anuggahessāmīti, yo tattha chando ca vāyāmo ca ussāho ca ussoḷhī ca appaṭivānī ca sati ca sampajaññañca, idaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, sīlapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ.","en":"And what is the factor of trying to be pure in ethics?\nIt’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.\nThis is called purity of ethics.\nThey think: ‘I will fulfill such purity of ethics, or, if it’s already fulfilled, I’ll support it in every situation by wisdom.’ Their enthusiasm for that—their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness—is called the factor of trying to be pure in ethics."}},{"id":"an4.194:4","sourceIds":["an4.194:4.1","an4.194:4.2","an4.194:4.3","an4.194:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, byagghapajjā, cittapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ?\nIdha, byagghapajjā, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi …pe… catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, cittapārisuddhi.\nIti evarūpiṁ cittapārisuddhiṁ aparipūraṁ vā paripūressāmi paripūraṁ vā tattha tattha paññāya anuggahessāmīti, yo tattha chando ca vāyāmo ca ussāho ca ussoḷhī ca appaṭivānī ca sati ca sampajaññañca, idaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, cittapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ.","en":"And what is the factor of trying to be pure in mind?\nIt’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption … second absorption … third absorption … fourth absorption.\nThis is called purity of mind.\nThey think: ‘I will fulfill such purity of mind, or, if it’s already fulfilled, I’ll support it in every situation by wisdom.’ Their enthusiasm for that—their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness—is called the factor of trying to be pure in mind."}},{"id":"an4.194:5","sourceIds":["an4.194:5.1","an4.194:5.2","an4.194:5.3","an4.194:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, byagghapajjā, diṭṭhipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ?\nIdha, byagghapajjā, bhikkhu ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, diṭṭhipārisuddhi.\nIti evarūpiṁ diṭṭhipārisuddhiṁ aparipūraṁ vā …pe… tattha tattha paññāya anuggahessāmīti, yo tattha chando ca vāyāmo ca ussāho ca ussoḷhī ca appaṭivānī ca sati ca sampajaññañca, idaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, diṭṭhipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ.","en":"And what is the factor of trying to be pure in view?\nTake a mendicant who truly understands: ‘This is suffering’ … ‘This is the origin of suffering’ … ‘This is the cessation of suffering’ … ‘This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering’.\nThis is called purity of view.\nThey think: ‘I will fulfill such purity of view, or, if it’s already fulfilled, I’ll support it in every situation by wisdom.’ Their enthusiasm for that—their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness—is called the factor of trying to be pure in view."}},{"id":"an4.194:6","sourceIds":["an4.194:6.1","an4.194:6.2","an4.194:6.3","an4.194:6.4","an4.194:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamañca, byagghapajjā, vimuttipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ?\nSa kho so, byagghapajjā, ariyasāvako iminā ca sīlapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgena samannāgato iminā ca cittapārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgena samannāgato iminā ca diṭṭhipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgena samannāgato rajanīyesu dhammesu cittaṁ virājeti, vimocanīyesu dhammesu cittaṁ vimoceti.\nSo rajanīyesu dhammesu cittaṁ virājetvā, vimocanīyesu dhammesu cittaṁ vimocetvā sammāvimuttiṁ phusati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, vimuttipārisuddhi.\nIti evarūpiṁ vimuttipārisuddhiṁ aparipūraṁ vā paripūressāmi paripūraṁ vā tattha tattha paññāya anuggahessāmīti, yo tattha chando ca vāyāmo ca ussāho ca ussoḷhī ca appaṭivānī ca sati ca sampajaññañca, idaṁ vuccati, byagghapajjā, vimuttipārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgaṁ.","en":"And what is the factor of trying to be pure in freedom?\nThat noble disciple—who has these factors of trying to be pure in ethics, mind, and view—detaches their mind from things that arouse greed, and frees their mind from things that it should be freed from.\nDoing so, they experience perfect freedom.\nThis is called purity of freedom.\nThey think: ‘I will fulfill such purity of freedom, or, if it’s already fulfilled, I’ll support it in every situation by wisdom.’ Their enthusiasm for that—their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness—is called the factor of trying to be pure in freedom."}},{"id":"an4.194:7","sourceIds":["an4.194:7.1","an4.194:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imāni kho, byagghapajjā, cattāri pārisuddhipadhāniyaṅgāni tena bhagavatā jānatā passatā arahatā sammāsambuddhena sammadakkhātāni sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāyā”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"These four factors of trying to be pure have been rightly explained by the Blessed One, who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.194/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."}