{"id":"iti21","title":"A Pure Mind","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti21","title":"A Pure Mind","units":[{"id":"iti21:0","sourceIds":["iti21:0.1","iti21:0.2","iti21:0.3","iti21:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 21\nEkakanipāta\nTatiyavagga\nPasannacittasutta","en":"So It Was Said 21\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Three\nA Pure Mind"}},{"id":"iti21:1","sourceIds":["iti21:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti21:2","sourceIds":["iti21:2.1","iti21:2.2","iti21:2.3","iti21:2.4","iti21:2.5","iti21:2.6","iti21:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idhāhaṁ, bhikkhave, ekaccaṁ puggalaṁ pasannacittaṁ evaṁ cetasā ceto paricca pajānāmi:\n‘imamhi cāyaṁ samaye puggalo kālaṁ kareyya yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge’.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nCittaṁ hissa, bhikkhave, pasannaṁ.\nCetopasādahetu kho pana, bhikkhave, evam’idhekacce sattā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjantī”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“Mendicants, when I’ve comprehended the mind of an individual whose mind is pure, I understand:\n‘If this individual were to die right now, they would be placed in heaven as if delivered there.’\nWhy is that?\nBecause their mind is pure.\nPurity of mind is the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti21:3","sourceIds":["iti21:3.1","iti21:3.2","iti21:3.3","iti21:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pasannacittaṁ ñatvāna,\nekaccaṁ idha puggalaṁ;\nEtamatthañca byākāsi,\nbuddho bhikkhūna santike.","en":"“Knowing an individual’s\npure mind,\nthe Buddha explained this matter\nin the mendicants’ presence."}},{"id":"iti21:4","sourceIds":["iti21:4.1","iti21:4.2","iti21:4.3","iti21:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imamhi cāyaṁ samaye,\nkālaṁ kayirātha puggalo;\nSugatiṁ upapajjeyya,\ncittaṁ hissa pasāditaṁ.","en":"If that individual\nwere to die at this time,\nthey’d be reborn in heaven,\nfor their mind is pure."}},{"id":"iti21:5","sourceIds":["iti21:5.1","iti21:5.2","iti21:5.3","iti21:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathā haritvā nikkhipeyya,\nevamevaṁ tathāvidho;\nCetopasādahetu hi,\nsattā gacchanti suggatin”ti.","en":"That sort is raised up as surely\nas if they’d been carried and put there.\nFor purity of mind is the reason\nsentient beings go to a good place.”"}},{"id":"iti21:6","sourceIds":["iti21:6.1","iti21:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti21/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."}