{"id":"sn15.10","title":"A Single Individual","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn15.10","title":"A Single Individual","units":[{"id":"sn15.10:0","sourceIds":["sn15.10:0.1","sn15.10:0.2","sn15.10:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 15.10\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nPuggalasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 15.10\nChapter One\nA Single Individual"}},{"id":"sn15.10:1","sourceIds":["sn15.10:1.1","sn15.10:1.2","sn15.10:1.3","sn15.10:1.4","sn15.10:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati gijjhakūṭe pabbate.\nTatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“bhikkhavo”ti.\n“Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain.\nThere the Buddha addressed the mendicants,\n“Mendicants!”\n“Venerable sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"sn15.10:2","sourceIds":["sn15.10:2.1","sn15.10:2.2","sn15.10:2.3","sn15.10:2.4","sn15.10:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro …pe…\nekapuggalassa, bhikkhave, kappaṁ sandhāvato saṁsarato siyā evaṁ mahā aṭṭhikaṅkalo aṭṭhipuñjo aṭṭhirāsi yathāyaṁ vepullo pabbato, sace saṁhārako assa, sambhatañca na vinasseyya.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAnamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro …pe…\nalaṁ vimuccitun”ti.","en":"“Mendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. …\nOne individual roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.\nWhy is that?\nThis transmigration has no known beginning. …\nThis is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”"}},{"id":"sn15.10:3","sourceIds":["sn15.10:3.1","sn15.10:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn15.10:4","sourceIds":["sn15.10:4.1","sn15.10:4.2","sn15.10:4.3","sn15.10:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ekassekena kappena,\npuggalassaṭṭhisañcayo;\nSiyā pabbatasamo rāsi,\niti vuttaṁ mahesinā.","en":"“If the bones of a single individual\nfor a single eon were gathered up,\nthey’d make a pile the size of a mountain:\nso said the great seer."}},{"id":"sn15.10:5","sourceIds":["sn15.10:5.1","sn15.10:5.2","sn15.10:5.3","sn15.10:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"So kho panāyaṁ akkhāto,\nvepullo pabbato mahā;\nUttaro gijjhakūṭassa,\nmagadhānaṁ giribbaje.","en":"And this is declared to be\nas big as Mount Vepulla,\nhigher than the Vulture’s Peak\nin the Mountainfold of the Magadhans."}},{"id":"sn15.10:6","sourceIds":["sn15.10:6.1","sn15.10:6.2","sn15.10:6.3","sn15.10:6.4","sn15.10:6.5","sn15.10:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yato ca ariyasaccāni,\nsammappaññāya passati;\nDukkhaṁ dukkhasamuppādaṁ,\ndukkhassa ca atikkamaṁ;\nAriyaṁ caṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ,\ndukkhūpasamagāminaṁ.","en":"But then, with right understanding,\none sees the noble truths—\nsuffering, suffering’s origin,\nsuffering’s transcendence,\nand the noble eightfold path\nthat leads to the stilling of suffering."}},{"id":"sn15.10:7","sourceIds":["sn15.10:7.1","sn15.10:7.2","sn15.10:7.3","sn15.10:7.4","sn15.10:7.5","sn15.10:7.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sa sattakkhattuṁparamaṁ,\nsandhāvitvāna puggalo;\nDukkhassantakaro hoti,\nsabbasaṁyojanakkhayā”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nPaṭhamo vaggo.","en":"After roaming on seven times at most,\nthat individual\nmakes an end of suffering,\nwith the ending of all fetters.”"}},{"id":"sn15.10:8","sourceIds":["sn15.10:8.0","sn15.10:8.1","sn15.10:8.2","sn15.10:8.3","sn15.10:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nTiṇakaṭṭhañca pathavī,\nassu khīrañca pabbataṁ;\nSāsapā sāvakā gaṅgā,\ndaṇḍo ca puggalena cāti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn15.10/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."}