{"id":"sn1.1","title":"Crossing the Flood","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.1","title":"Crossing the Flood","units":[{"id":"sn1.1:0","sourceIds":["sn1.1:0.1","sn1.1:0.2","sn1.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.1\n1. Naḷavagga\nOghataraṇasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.1\n1. A Reed\nCrossing the Flood"}},{"id":"sn1.1:1","sourceIds":["sn1.1:1.1","sn1.1:1.2","sn1.1:1.3","sn1.1:1.4","sn1.1:1.5","sn1.1:1.6","sn1.1:1.7","sn1.1:1.8","sn1.1:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nAtha kho aññatarā devatā abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇā kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhitā kho sā devatā bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“kathaṁ nu tvaṁ, mārisa, oghamatarī”ti?\n“Appatiṭṭhaṁ khvāhaṁ, āvuso, anāyūhaṁ oghamatarin”ti.\n“Yathākathaṁ pana tvaṁ, mārisa, appatiṭṭhaṁ anāyūhaṁ oghamatarī”ti?\n“Yadāsvāhaṁ, āvuso, santiṭṭhāmi tadāssu saṁsīdāmi;\nyadāsvāhaṁ, āvuso, āyūhāmi tadāssu nibbuyhāmi.\nEvaṁ khvāhaṁ, āvuso, appatiṭṭhaṁ anāyūhaṁ oghamatarin”ti.","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThen, late at night, a glorious deity, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to him,\n“Good fellow, how did you cross the flood?”\n“Neither standing nor swimming, respectable sir, I crossed the flood.”\n“But in what way did you cross the flood neither standing nor swimming?”\n“When I stood, I sank under.\nWhen I swam, I was swept away.\nThat’s how I crossed the flood neither standing nor swimming.”"}},{"id":"sn1.1:2","sourceIds":["sn1.1:2.1","sn1.1:2.2","sn1.1:2.3","sn1.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cirassaṁ vata passāmi,\nbrāhmaṇaṁ parinibbutaṁ;\nAppatiṭṭhaṁ anāyūhaṁ,\ntiṇṇaṁ loke visattikan”ti.","en":"“After a long time I see\na brahmin fully quenched.\nNeither standing nor swimming,\nhe’s crossed over clinging to the world.”"}},{"id":"sn1.1:3","sourceIds":["sn1.1:3.1","sn1.1:3.2","sn1.1:3.3","sn1.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca sā devatā.\nSamanuñño satthā ahosi.\nAtha kho sā devatā:\n“samanuñño me satthā”ti bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā padakkhiṇaṁ katvā tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"That is what that deity said,\nand the Teacher concurred.\nThen that deity, knowing that the Teacher concurred, bowed and respectfully circled the Buddha, keeping him on his right, before vanishing right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.1/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."}