{"id":"sn13.4","title":"Where the Waters Join Together (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn13.4","title":"Where the Waters Join Together (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn13.4:0","sourceIds":["sn13.4:0.1","sn13.4:0.2","sn13.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 13.4\n1. Abhisamayavagga\nDutiyasambhejjaudakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 13.4\n1. Comprehension\nWhere the Waters Join Together (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn13.4:1","sourceIds":["sn13.4:1.1","sn13.4:1.2","sn13.4:1.3","sn13.4:1.4","sn13.4:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yatthimā mahānadiyo saṁsandanti samenti, seyyathidaṁ—\ngaṅgā yamunā aciravatī sarabhū mahī, taṁ udakaṁ parikkhayaṁ pariyādānaṁ gaccheyya ṭhapetvā dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni.\nTaṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ, yaṁ vā sambhejjaudakaṁ parikkhīṇaṁ pariyādiṇṇaṁ yāni vā dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni avasiṭṭhānī”ti?","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, there are places where the great rivers—the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—join together and converge.\nSuppose that water dried up and evaporated except two or three drops.\nWhat do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more: the water in the confluence that has dried up and evaporated, or the two or three drops left?”"}},{"id":"sn13.4:2","sourceIds":["sn13.4:2.1","sn13.4:2.2","sn13.4:2.3","sn13.4:2.4","sn13.4:2.5","sn13.4:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Etadeva, bhante, bahutaraṁ sambhejjaudakaṁ yadidaṁ parikkhīṇaṁ pariyādiṇṇaṁ;\nappamattakāni dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni avasiṭṭhāni.\nNeva satimaṁ kalaṁ upenti na sahassimaṁ kalaṁ upenti na satasahassimaṁ kalaṁ upenti sambhejjaudakaṁ parikkhīṇaṁ pariyādiṇṇaṁ upanidhāya dve vā tīṇi vā udakaphusitāni avasiṭṭhānī”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave …pe…\ndhammacakkhupaṭilābho”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"“Sir, the water in the confluence that has dried up and evaporated is certainly more.\nThe two or three drops left are tiny.\nCompared to the water in the confluence that has dried up and evaporated, it’s not nearly a hundredth, a thousandth, or a hundred thousandth part.”\n“In the same way, for a noble disciple, the suffering that’s over and done with is more …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn13.4/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."}