{"id":"sn21.12","title":"Companions","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn21.12","title":"Companions","units":[{"id":"sn21.12:0","sourceIds":["sn21.12:0.1","sn21.12:0.2","sn21.12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 21.12\n1. Bhikkhuvagga\nSahāyakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 21.12\n1. Monks\nCompanions"}},{"id":"sn21.12:1","sourceIds":["sn21.12:1.1","sn21.12:1.2","sn21.12:1.3","sn21.12:1.4","sn21.12:1.5","sn21.12:1.6","sn21.12:1.7","sn21.12:1.8","sn21.12:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\nAtha kho dve bhikkhū sahāyakā āyasmato mahākappinassa saddhivihārino yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu.\nAddasā kho bhagavā te bhikkhū dūratova āgacchante.\nDisvāna bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“passatha no tumhe, bhikkhave, ete bhikkhū sahāyake āgacchante kappinassa saddhivihārino”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante”.\n“Ete kho te bhikkhū mahiddhikā mahānubhāvā.\nNa ca sā samāpatti sulabharūpā, yā tehi bhikkhūhi asamāpannapubbā.\nYassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharantī”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen two mendicants who were companions, protégés of Venerable Mahākappina, went to the Buddha.\nThe Buddha saw them coming off in the distance,\nand addressed the mendicants:\n“Mendicants, do you see those monks coming who are companions, protégés of Venerable Mahākappina?”\n“Yes, sir.”\n“Those mendicants are very mighty and powerful.\nIt’s not easy to find an attainment that they have not already attained.\nAnd they’ve realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. They live having achieved with their own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”"}},{"id":"sn21.12:2","sourceIds":["sn21.12:2.1","sn21.12:2.2"],"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":"sn21.12:3","sourceIds":["sn21.12:3.1","sn21.12:3.2","sn21.12:3.3","sn21.12:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sahāyāvatime bhikkhū,\ncirarattaṁ sametikā;\nSameti nesaṁ saddhammo,\ndhamme buddhappavedite.","en":"“These companion mendicants\nhave been together for a long time.\nThe true teaching has brought them together,\nthe teaching proclaimed by the Buddha."}},{"id":"sn21.12:4","sourceIds":["sn21.12:4.1","sn21.12:4.2","sn21.12:4.3","sn21.12:4.4","sn21.12:4.5","sn21.12:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Suvinītā kappinena,\ndhamme ariyappavedite;\nDhārenti antimaṁ dehaṁ,\njetvā māraṁ savāhinin”ti.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nBhikkhuvaggo paṭhamo.","en":"They’ve been well trained by Kappina\nin the teaching proclaimed by the Noble One.\nThey bear their final body,\nhaving vanquished Māra with his legions.”"}},{"id":"sn21.12:5","sourceIds":["sn21.12:5.0","sn21.12:5.1","sn21.12:5.2","sn21.12:5.3","sn21.12:5.4","sn21.12:5.5","sn21.12:5.6","sn21.12:5.7","sn21.12:5.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nKolito upatisso ca,\nghaṭo cāpi pavuccati;\nNavo sujāto bhaddi ca,\nvisākho nando tisso ca;\nTheranāmo ca kappino,\nsahāyena ca dvādasāti.\nBhikkhusaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ.\nNidānavaggo dutiyo.","en":"The Linked Discourses on monks are complete."}},{"id":"sn21.12:6","sourceIds":["sn21.12:6.0","sn21.12:6.1","sn21.12:6.2","sn21.12:6.3","sn21.12:6.4","sn21.12:6.5","sn21.12:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nNidānābhisamayadhātu,\nanamataggena kassapaṁ;\nSakkārarāhulalakkhaṇo,\nopammabhikkhunā vaggo.\nDutiyo tena pavuccatīti.\nNidānavaggasaṁyuttapāḷi niṭṭhitā.","en":"The Book of Causality is finished."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.12/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."}