{"id":"sn35.119","title":"The Question of Pañcasikha","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.119","title":"The Question of Pañcasikha","units":[{"id":"sn35.119:0","sourceIds":["sn35.119:0.1","sn35.119:0.2","sn35.119:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.119\n12. Lokakāmaguṇavagga\nPañcasikhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.119\n12. The World and the Kinds of Sensual Stimulation\nThe Question of Pañcasikha"}},{"id":"sn35.119:1","sourceIds":["sn35.119:1.1","sn35.119:1.2","sn35.119:1.3","sn35.119:1.4","sn35.119:1.5","sn35.119:1.6","sn35.119:1.7","sn35.119:1.8","sn35.119:1.9","sn35.119:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati gijjhakūṭe pabbate.\nAtha kho pañcasikho gandhabbadevaputto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhito kho pañcasikho gandhabbadevaputto bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme no parinibbāyanti?\nKo pana, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme parinibbāyantī”ti?\n“Santi kho, pañcasikha, cakkhuviññeyyā rūpā …pe…\nsanti kho, pañcasikha, manoviññeyyā dhammā, iṭṭhā kantā manāpā piyarūpā kāmūpasaṁhitā rajanīyā.\nTañce bhikkhu abhinandati abhivadati ajjhosāya tiṭṭhati.\nTassa taṁ abhinandato abhivadato ajjhosāya tiṭṭhato tannissitaṁ viññāṇaṁ hoti tadupādānaṁ.\nSaupādāno, pañcasikha, bhikkhu no parinibbāyati.\nAyaṁ kho, pañcasikha, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme no parinibbāyanti.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain.\nAnd then the centaur Pañcasikha went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and said to him:\n“What is the cause, sir, what is the reason why some sentient beings are not fully extinguished in this very life?\nWhat is the cause, sir, what is the reason why some sentient beings are fully extinguished in this very life?”\n“Pañcasikha, there are sights known by the eye …\nideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.\nIf a mendicant approves, welcomes, and keeps clinging to them,\ntheir consciousness has that as support and fuel for grasping.\nA mendicant with fuel for grasping does not become extinguished.\nThat’s the cause, that’s the reason why some sentient beings are not fully extinguished in this very life."}},{"id":"sn35.119:2","sourceIds":["sn35.119:2.1","sn35.119:2.2","sn35.119:2.3","sn35.119:2.4","sn35.119:2.5","sn35.119:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi ca kho, pañcasikha, cakkhuviññeyyā rūpā iṭṭhā kantā manāpā …pe…\nsanti kho, pañcasikha, manoviññeyyā dhammā iṭṭhā kantā manāpā piyarūpā kāmūpasaṁhitā rajanīyā.\nTañce bhikkhu nābhinandati nābhivadati nājjhosāya tiṭṭhati, tassa taṁ anabhinandato anabhivadato anajjhosāya tiṭṭhato na tannissitaṁ viññāṇaṁ hoti, na tadupādānaṁ.\nAnupādāno, pañcasikha, bhikkhu parinibbāyati.\nAyaṁ kho, pañcasikha, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo yena m’idhekacce sattā diṭṭheva dhamme parinibbāyantī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"There are sights known by the eye …\nideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.\nIf a mendicant doesn’t approve, welcome, and keep clinging to them, their consciousness doesn’t have that as support and fuel for grasping.\nA mendicant free of grasping becomes extinguished.\nThat’s the cause, that’s the reason why some sentient beings are fully extinguished in this very life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.119/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."}